Dean A. Beers, CLI - Practical Methods for Legal Investigations officially released

Feb. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Features
   * Presents a system that is easily adaptable to small assignments as well as complex litigation cases
   * Emphasizes preparation, the most often neglected aspect of many investigations
   * Differentiates between conducting and completing assignments and investigations
   * Provides protocol for fact acquisition, recording, communicating, and reporting

Summary
Legal investigators are responsible for providing factual evidence - as the fact finders, they are the foundation for the attorneys they work with daily. The attorney is responsible for forming and implementing the legal strategy and presenting it to the judge or jury. The legal investigator provides checks and balances to ensure that no evidence is being forced upon a theory, and that no theory is being forced upon the evidence. Practical Methods for Legal Investigations: Concepts and Protocols in Civil and Criminal Cases presents legal investigators with a step-by-step process that reveals how to methodically find and report evidence in every aspect of the investigative process.

Similar to the scientific principle of using research to prove or disprove a theory, the author’s Investigative Protocol is designed to find the facts that prove or disprove criminal charges, civil allegations, or elements thereof. The book includes case studies that clearly detail how the process of the Investigative Protocol applies to every assignment of the case and to the case as a whole. Comprehensive and methodical, the system provides a map to the truth.

Through a special arrangement, this book is also available from our friends at www.PIStore.com (Retail price: $89.95 - pre-order for $69.95).

For complete details visit www.PracticalMethodsForLegalInvestigations.com for complete book details and author biography.

About the author:
Dean A. Beers, CLI is a Certified Legal Investigator and expert in criminal defense homicide and civil equivocal death investigations. He is certified in Medicolegal Death Investigation and served as a forensic autopsy assistant. He has lectured and authored multiple articles, peer-reviewed white papers, and provided expert testimony on private investigator protocols. In addition to this recent book, he previously authored 'Professional Locate Investigations'.

Mr. Beers is the Board Chairman of the Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado, Region 6 CLI Representative of the National Association of Legal Investigators and has a column called Forensic Focus in The Legal Investigator, NALI's trade magazine, Membership Chair of the National Council of Investigation and Security Services, Affiliate Consultant member of the National Association of Medical Examiners, and holds additional memberships in the World Association of Detectives, International Association for Identification, and Mensa USA.

He began his investigative career in 1987 and operates his agency, Forensic Investigators of Colorado LLC, with his wife, Karen, also a legal investigator and certified in Medicolegal Death Investigations.  They have two daughters, a granddaughter and identical twin grandsons.

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