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Reducing Client Costs For Investigative Services

In a perfect world, firms could employ private investigators who are as skilled as pseudo-bumbling television police detective Columbo, Dallas lawyer William Brewer III says. <br/>That's rarely the case when Brewer contracts with private investigation companies to help with litigation at 35-lawyer Bickel &amp; Brewer, so the firm launched its own investigative unit in January. It's staffed by three former agents and a former training instructor with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

5 minute read February 27, 2006 at 01:25 PM
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Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
Reducing Client Costs For Investigative Services

In a perfect world, firms could employ private investigators who are as skilled as pseudo-bumbling television police detective Columbo, Dallas lawyer William Brewer III says.

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