eSkiptrace.com is a division of McGuinness & Associates, Inc. a Miami, Florida based full service private investigation agency that has served the legal profession since 1985. You can visit our main investigative agency website at www.fraudexaminer.com.
Director, Brian P. McGuinness has been conducting investigations for the legal profession for over 30 years. He is a former Miami-Dade County Public Defender Investigator. He has located hundreds, if not thousands, of witnesses over the years. Having come from a large IBM family, he was one of the first investigators in Florida to go online and subscribe to the early investigative databases. He has testified in U.S. District Court concerning online databases and has been qualified in Court as an expert in this area.
He is a former president of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators and a former president of NCISS- National Council of Investigation and Security Services, an industry trade association that lobbies on a grass roots level in Washington DC. concerning investigative, security and public record access issues.
As president of NCISS, Brian chaired a meeting in Washington, DC between investigative leaders and executives of the major data provider companies including Lexis-Nexis, Choicepoint, Accurint and others. The joint industry group tried to find common ground and to counter intense media scrutiny on data providers for large scale security breaches at the time. Brian developed an inside track as to how data providers and aggregators collect, sort, distribute, and in some cases, truncate personal identity information that is used when locating and back grounding individuals.
This background has enabled Brian and his agency to stay on the cutting edge of personal identity data issues that are so integral to being able to effectively locate witnesses and to conduct background investigations.
He has been locating witnesses for attorneys for over 30 years and regularly attends investigative seminars including witness location sessions. He has lectured at seminars on topics such as “How to Locate Difficult Witnesses”.
He is a firm believer in continuing education and is constantly updating his skills and the skillset of his employees in order to more effectively locate witnesses.
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