Lawyers and Investigator Agencies

Lawyers – By their special knowledge of law since and forensic skills, the lawyers can help their clients obtain the most benefit, protect the rights, or assume the least obligation.

Investigator agencies – Nowadays, there are two methods of the investigator agencies to conduct the investigation: one is named “database investigation”, which means the investigators operate the investigation only by searching information in all kinds of databases; the other method is named ‘”field investigation”. In the latter method, information got from databases is used just as clues and the investigators have to do more investigation in field on the base of the database investigation. Steele Business Investigation Center is one of the investigator agencies that take field investigation as the predominate method to complete their most investigative cases (Steele’s website: http://www.sbcs.com.cn).

So, what is the relationship between lawyers and the investigator agencies? In fact, the two are just like the brothers and they can be helpful to each other. For example, winning a litigant case is decided not only by the lawyer’s ability but also by the important evidence that can be obtained by investigation; smoothly executing a judgement is based on the successful assets tracing; and it is necessary for a corporation’s legal consultant to know the management, marketing and other information of the competitors of his client and the investigator agencies are absolutely the best assistance on gaining such information.

Under a legal environment, people improve their legal awareness. Rather than winning a litigant case as the sole aim, the clients pay more attention to retrieving their economic lost as much as possible and they also choose the lawyers by such standard as “how much the lawyer can help me redeem my lost”? Therefore, the lawyers have to make greater efforts to reach the clients’ such requirement.

How to help the clients redeem their economic lost? Only winning a case in court is not enough. The point is how to know the component and situation of the obligors’ assets, including the chattel and the estate, such as house property, tenement, vehicles, external investment and other immaterial properties.

Even as an experienced and competent lawyer, his ability is limited. Although he can judge the result of a case (win or loose), he cannot promise and decide the successful execution of the judgement because his job is just analyzing a case from the point of view of a lawyer and debating in court. Moreover, it is normal for a lawyer to conduct more than one case at the same time. So it is really difficult for a lawyer to investigate every obligor’s assets inland or even in other countries especially for one case when another client or clients are waiting for him to deal with other cases. And how? As a lawyer, you need the assistance and support from the investigator agencies.

By the development of the society, division of labor is more and more specific. Even In the circle of investigation, there appears many different types companies respectively specializing in criminal investigation, civil affair investigation, business investigation, credit investigation, market investigation and marriage investigation, etc. It is helpful to the lawyers to assign credit investigation or assets tracing to the professional investigator agencies. First, by such investigation as assets tracing, the investigator agencies can reach the clients’ requirement to retrieve their lost as much as possible, thus guaranteeing the success of cases to lawyers. Second, the clients or their lawyers can assign the investigative part of a case to the investigator agencies, and the agencies take the responsibility to the clients directly. Third, according to the demand of the lawyers, the investigator agencies can also collect related evidence during the investigation. Finally, by the assistance of the investigator agencies, lawyers may save more time and devote themselves into analyzing cases or other legal affairs.

In a word, by the cooperation with the investigator agencies, lawyers may conduct cases more successfully with some tough problems, which are just like the obstacles in cases, being settled easily by professional investigators.