If there was an award for the best team player, perhaps even the “6th Man Award” for the courtroom – always coming off the bench in the clutch and giving outstanding results day in and day out, then the private investigator would get it most every time. He is the one that brings in all the information that ends up being crucial testimony. He is the one searching high and low for evidence, witnesses and testimony. He is the one who knows exactly what the team needs and when the team needs it. He is a team player. Such is the role of a Private Investigator.
Good Defense
A private investigator knows what good team work is and provides exactly what the legal team needs in order to obtain the best possible defense. This means that they will follow the lead of the attorneys and their instructions, and they will have a thorough understanding of the sequence of evidence needed for the best possible results. They will gather the witnesses, collect the exhibits and help the legal team organize the entirety of the evidence.

For example, a typical scenario in which a PI would be hired by an attorney is in a case of adultery. In order to prove that illegal conduct had taken place within a marriage and in order to build grounds for divorce, a private investigator would be hired by an attorney and be given the task of photo surveillance, video surveillance and witness interviews. Working together, they would try and build the best defense with as much evidence as possible.

Yet, private investigators do not simply serve the attorneys. They themselves can serve as expert witnesses; they can decide what exactly is needed to make and support your case, and they can take the lead on finding and evaluating evidence. They truly are a team player, able to play the follower and the leader, and always providing what the team needs.

Never the Mole
Especially in high profile cases – where the media wants to know every single detail about every person so that they can be the first to publicize the “facts”, even if it jeopardizes the case, but even in smaller, less well-known ones, talking with the media can be a problem among a legal team. But you can be assured that a professional private investigator like Nickels Private Investigations would never talk with the media, jeopardizing the case. We will never be the mole, never the insider.

Not only would it be unethical for us to do so, but it breaks the law! State laws in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts forbid any information to be divulged that is received by Private Investigator. Furthermore, because we are under contract through the ‘attorney client privilege”, we cannot give out information. That is to say: what happens in and for the courtroom, stays in and for the courtroom. We keep it secret. We keep it safe. Why? Because that is what a team player does.that is what a team player does.

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