Carole Levit and Mark Rosch will take you on a deep dive into the Internet to quickly conduct factual and investigate research to obtain useful background and investigate information about parties, witnesses, experts, jurors, and clients (current and potential), and more. You’ll be able to unearth a treasure trove of information for pre-trial preparation and to use at trial as evidence or for cross-examination by earning to:
• Use Google’s Advanced Search menu and some of its specialty databases to create more sophisticated and targeted searches to:
o find an expert’s articles and PowerPoint presentations
o find images
o locate news (both current and historical)
• Track down deleted or altered web pages to use as evidence.
• Successfully navigate through Social Networking sites to:
o find information in a party or witness’s profile to attack their credibility during cross-examination
o uncover fraud
o find the smoking gun
o decide which jurors to challenge
• Find public records using free sites and pay sites to:
o locate missing defendants and witnesses
o uncover criminal histories, property records, driver’s license, vehicle records, driving records, assets, vital records, and political campaign contributions, etc.
