LEGALWORKS 2004

Presentation to the 
Daily Journal LegalWorks 2004
San Francisco
April 15-16, 2004
 

Paper: Cybersleuthing for People Who Can't Set the Clock on their VCR
Web Resource: Ball's Informal Discovery Links Page

Locating People and Learning About Them:
Addresses & 
Phone Nos.

Craig's Phone Finder

Reverse a Phone No. 

Example:

Enter Phone No:
 

Reverse an Address  

 
House Number:
Street:
City: State: 
 

FindLaw PeopleSearch

The Big Four: Name, DOB, SSN, DL#, LKA  

Lawyers.com
FindLaw/WLD

Example:  

FEC Contrib. Recs
followthemoney.org

Example - Federal:         Kenneth Lay

Example - State:             Kenneth Lay 
opensecrets.org

 

LAST NAME of donor (or last name, first name)
Use company name for soft money donations
 

STATE of donor

 

ZIP CODE of donor

 

OCCUPATION / EMPLOYER of donor
 

RECIPIENT
(Name of federal candidate, PAC, or party committee)

Election cycle(s) to search:

Select one or more of the
following recent cycles:
 2004
 2002
 2000

  OR  

Select up to two of these
previous cycles:
 1998   1996
 1994   1992
 1990

 

Order the results by:

Name of donor
 Amount donated
 Date of donation

  Search for soft money only
(there is also a standardized soft money donor search online)

State Bar of California

SEARCH BY BAR NUMBER: 166234
Bar No............

SEARCH BY NAME: 
Last Name......
First Name..... 
Middle Name..

CA State Bar Disciplinary
Record Service

Example:  XXXXXXXXXXX (no record of discipline)

California Sect'y of State's Records:

Corporations: Enter the complete or partial name of the corporate record you wish to search and click the "Submit Corporate Record Search" button:


LP/LLC: Enter the complete or partial name of the LP/LLC record you wish to search and click the "Submit LP/LLC Record Search" button:


Birthdays

Anybirthday.com
(>135 million rec'ds)
First Name
Last Name
Zip (optional) (partial OK)

Examples:    Susan Levinkind                      

 

KNOW-X:
Ultimate People Locator

Example: Carrie Hughes
                   Nancy Carlin
  username=guest    password=welcome

Name:
City:
State:
Zip:    

KNOW-X:
Marriage Records

 username=guest    password=welcome 

Groom Name:
Bride Name:
State:    

KNOW-X:
 Divorce Records

username=guest    password=welcome

Husband Name:
Wife's Name:
Best to enter just first name here.
State:    

Search Systems.net

Links to 19,107 free searchable databases
 Example: California Records

Example: California Unclaimed Property Search: Connie Werschem

Appraisal District Records:

California Real Property Records

Contra Costa County

Harris County (TX)

Kenneth L. Lay

Search Engines:

Google.com: 

Ball's Search Central

Google numbers: VIN, UPC, Pkg tracking, tail numbers
Also, last name, zip or Fname, Lname, state, reverse phone #

Susan Levinkind

Don't Forget Google Images

Amazon.com?!?

 "Search Within the Book" feature
Susan Levinkind

Family History Records:

The "Cousin Dewayne" Factor

Ancestry.com
Over 650 million names 

 

 

 

 

Genealogy.com

 
  
   First Name Last Name Spelling
   Advanced Options:
    
   Proximity   Country  
State/Province/County
   to
   Year Range Keyword(s) Record Type

Craig Ball
Carol Ann Romej
Lisa Ann Ratzlaff

RootsWeb.com


  Last Name
  First Name		   

Mormon Church
 

Social Security Death Index
over 67 million
records on line

Last name
First Name
Middle Name (initial)
SSN

 
Find former employees
Eliyon.com
19,721,563 listings
Enter company name to find past employees:
e.g. IBM, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble


Commercial Providers:
Delving Deeper with Dollars

 

Public Data

What does $25.00 
per year buy?

Drivers License, License Tag, VIN and Criminal records

DL record:     Dubya
DL record:     George Herbert Walker Bush 
DL record:     Kenneth Lay

License Plate: D41BTB

VIN: WDBJF55F2VJ033031

Voter record:  Laura Bush 
Voter record:  H. Ross Perot

Criminal Records: David Duncan, BUT NOT 
David Bruce Duncan born on Mar. 23, 1959
Criminal Records:  George Bush, but not Dubya

Accurint


The Accurint Andrew Fastow report 
The Accurint David Duncan report

TrialSmith.com

9.7 million searchable pages of expert testimony online, full-text

Credit Reports

 Equifax
Experian             Example: Craig Ball
Transunion

US Search

  

What Can You Get Online and What 
Does It Cost?

  Bank Account Locator Example
  Brokerage Account Locator Example

A Few Useful Search Tools

Ball's Informal Discovery Links Page
Ball's Search Central
Handy Terrific Links for Attorneys