What Is a Professional Legal Investigator?

First, it is important to understand that legal investigators work primarily in civil negligence and criminal defense assignments, and usually only directly for the attorney. Private investigators do the same, but also work with private citizens and on other assignments, such as domestic relations and workplace environments. ‚is book is primarily for the legal investigation audience, but is adaptable to any investigative process, such as insurance, domestic, workplace, law enforcement, etc. Being in any of these categories does not preclude this “outside of the box” concept from being benecial if one does not preclude himself or herself from doing these other things. Other common investigative specialties are the fraud investigator and probate investigator. ‚ey may all overlap and benet each other. ‚e skills required, and even the processes used, are o·en the same. When I returned to the private sector, my decision was to focus only on legal investigation.