A Swiss Army Knife of Tools for Skip Tracing & Due Diligence

Avi Klein is a private investigator in Oakland, California with a law degree from USC. He’s also a former investigative journalist in Washington D.C. who covered the finance, defense, and national security industries. Klein is now managing partner of The Klein Group, a firm that specializes in litigation support, due diligence for investors, locating heirs, and defending contested wills.

Check out Klein’s LinkedIn feed: He shares great information about due diligence, background investigations, and skip tracing. In one post, he writes about what he calls “real locates”—assignments to find people who are tough to trace, like the unhoused, recent college grads, or people who change addresses a lot. “A real locate puts the investigative professional to the proof,” he writes. “You need a Swiss army knife full of tools for each circumstance.”

I love that phrase. It captures the investigator’s skill set perfectly. In the webinar, Avi Klein and I will talk about some tools that should be in a PI’s Swiss army knife. —Hal Humphreys