Lawyers and Investigator Agencies

Lawyers － By their special knowledge of laws and forensic skills, the lawyers can help their clients obtain the most benefit, protect the rights to the maximum or minimize the burden or liability of clients.

Investigator agencies － Nowadays, there are two methods for 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”, which means that the investigators conduct the field investigation on the base of the database investigation as clues. Steele Business Investigation Center is one of the investigator agencies taking field investigation as the primary 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 brothers and they supplement to each other. For example, winning a litigant case depends on not only the lawyer’s ability but also the important evidence obtained by investigation; smoothly executing a judgment 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.

As people improve their legal awareness, rather than winning a litigant case as the sole aim, the clients pay more attention to retrieve their economic loss 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 assets status of the obligors, 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 a case win or loose, he cannot promise and decide the successful execution of the judgment 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 foreign countries, especially for one case when other 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.

With the development that the society division of labor becomes more and more specific, even in the circle of investigation, there appears many different types of companies respectively specializing in criminal investigation, civil affair investigation, business investigation, credit investigation, market investigation and marriage investigation, etc. It is helpful to 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 loss as much as possible, thus providing the support guarantees of the success for lawyers to get cases from the clients. 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 being settled easily by professional investigators.