Three Reasons Why Your Law Practice Needs a Public Records Database

Three Reasons Why Your Law Practice Needs a Public Records Database

If you’re a legal professional, performing deep dives on individuals is part of the job. You need to gather comprehensive information on every person involved in the case, and that requires hours of research. Some legal professionals hire private investigators to help perform this research, and others do it themselves. But in law, time is … Read more

How to Run a License Plate Search

Learn how to search by license plate to find a car or its owner with Tracers.

There are over 260 million trucks and cars on the road – and with so many adults driving vehicles, license plate recognition systems have given law enforcement, investigators, legal professionals, insurance, and collections new ways to skip trace individuals or gather more information for an investigation. Vehicle sightings can tell you all sorts of information … Read more

Tools for Business Investigations

Tools for Business Investigations

If you need to perform a business investigation, whether it’s for basic due diligence in the financial services industry, to investigate fraud, or to ensure legal compliance, you need to be able to gather large amounts of information in order to feel confident that you’ve taken all the necessary steps to properly investigate that business. With so many different players … Read more

Three Tips on How to Cut Legal Research Costs

Three Tips on How to Cut Legal Research Costs

Legal research can be a tedious and costly, but it’s also a necessary and unavoidable task for any legal professional. There are numerous different elements involved in legal research, such as case research and fact research, and different ways you can go about gaining the information you need and begin building your arguments. Legal research software has provided … Read more

What is Identity Verification?

What is identity verification

In many different industries, being sure that people are who they say they are is vital to running effective and safe business operations. Whether it’s making a financial transaction, transmitting sensitive information, or performing a background investigation or legal research, verifying that people’s identities should be a top priority. But while this may seem like … Read more

Private Investigator Tips — How to Solve Cases Quicker

Private Investigator Tips

As a private investigator, you know the key to solving cases is being able to track down the facts you need and find connections between different pieces of information. Depending on the investigation, there are a number of different actions you may need to perform. Sometimes, you need to be able to skip trace hard-to-find … Read more

How to Streamline and Shorten the Collections Cycle

How to Streamline and Shorten the Collections Cycle

Collection and recovery is a difficult and tedious process, even for the most experienced collections agencies. People dealing with collections often don’t want to be found, and they may try to change their contact information or move around. People may also try to hide assets, or records may be missing or fragmented – making it even … Read more

Tips for Improving Right-Party Contact

Tips for Improving Right-Party Contact

Right-party contact is vital to a variety of industries – like collections, repossession, investigators, law enforcement, and more – because it ensures that the people in these industries are getting in contact with the people they need to be getting in contact with. Unfortunately, right-party contact isn’t always easy, particularly when people don’t want to … Read more

Seven Tips for Using Public and Private Records

7 Tips for Using Public and Private Records

If you’re in an industry in which you need to perform investigative research about a person, whether you’re a legal professional, a private investigator, or you work in collections or repossession, you know that even the smallest pieces of information can matter. But with so many records out there, it can be difficult to know … Read more

What is a Social Media Search?

What is a social media search

In 2021, over 70% of Americans used social media. This rise of social media has, in many ways, turned the private sphere public. People reveal all sorts of personal information about themselves online — where they go, who they’re in relationships with, what they like to do, what they don’t like, their day-to-day activities — … Read more