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"Privilege: A Matter of Trust " - Chicago Private Investigator Susan Carlson
Often discussed but also frequently misinterpreted is Attorney-Client Privilege and Attorney Work Product. Clients of attorneys and even private investigators working under an attorney's direction need to have a clear understanding of what these terms mean conceptually and practically. Chicago Private Investigator Susan Carlson will discuss these constitutionally based concepts as it applies to the important work of PIs.
"Investigate Before You Litigate" - Chicago Private Investigator Susan Carlson
Ms. Susan Carlson appeared on ALPRA Radio to share her advice on how her private investigation efforts have helped her clients peel back the layers and discover truth.
Chicago Area Private Investigator, Susan Carlson, obtains CLI certification
Chicago area legal investigator Susan Carlson, owner of Carlson Investigations, Inc, recently earned the coveted designation of Certified Legal Investigator (CLI) from the National Association of Legal Investigators’ (NALI).
Private Detectives Offer Theories in 1986 Summerfield Death
Two Chicago-area private detectives believe they know how to solve a baffling unsolved murder --- the 1986 strangulation of an unidentified young woman found in a cornfield just outside the tiny village of Summerfield.
Hit-and-run victim's family pleads for help
Twenty-five-year old Rachel Gilliam was killed as she was on her way home from the restaurant where she worked in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. Gilliam was killed in the early morning after Halloween.
Family Pleas For Driver In Hit And Run To Step Forward
The parents of hit-and-run victim Rachel Gilliam pleaded to the public for information leading to the identity of the driver that struck and killed their daughter at Cullom and Lincoln in a press conference on Wednesday.
$10K reward in DePaul student fatal hit-run
Friends and family of a young Chicago woman hope a $10,000 reward will lead to the driver who hit and killed her over the Halloween weekend.
Victim’s Friends Go To Businesses Searching for Video of Hit-and-Run Accident
In the days following the accident, Brown and other friends knocked on businesses’ doors up and down Lincoln Avenue between Lawrence and Irving Park Road asking if business owners if they had security video that might shed light on the silver car believed to be responsible for Gilliam’s death.
Police may have break in fatal hit and run
Chicago Police are set to announce a major step forward in the investigation into the hit-and-run accident that killed a 25-year-old bartender last November.
Suspect in hit and run death of Rachel Gilliam is identified, police need your help finding him
Police say they now know who is responsible for the hit and run death of 25-year-old Rachel Gilliam but they need the public's help actually finding him.
Attorney Client Privilege Vs. Work Product With Susan Carlson
Whether you are a or a publicist, there may not be a statutory privilege extending to you and your work. Susan appeared on ALPRA Radio to explain how the work product doctrine has expanded over the years and share tips of the trade.
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