Successful litigation depends on solid information and impeccable evidence. Gathering information and evidence takes a special skill. We work with corporate law firms and general counsel to provide the necessary components of successful legal action, including interviews, research, and evidence gathering.
Each case is handled on an individual basis. We provide local and regional services, depending on the needs of the client. We communicate with attorneys to ensure the best possible results through the investigation process to meet deadlines. Our goal is to help in the litigation process, from commencement to conclusion.
Litigation Support Services Include:
- Document Integrity Management
- Witness Identification and Location
- Physical Evidence Gathering and Evaluation
Pinpoint Investigations & Security Corp. provides these services throughout Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx.
Who Uses This Service
- Plaintiff and defense attorneys, law firms, trial teams, appellate teams, and criminal-defense counsel needing independent investigative support.
- In-house counsel, general counsel, boards, special committees, compliance teams, and businesses involved in civil, commercial, employment, regulatory, or internal disputes.
- Insurance carriers, claims professionals, special investigation units, third-party administrators, self-insured organizations, and coverage or subrogation counsel.
- Family-law, probate, trust and estate, real-estate, construction, intellectual-property, professional-liability, and fraud litigation teams.
- Forensic accountants, engineers, reconstructionists, digital-forensic professionals, damages experts, and other retained specialists who need licensed field, witness, record, or evidence support coordinated through counsel.
When to Contact Pinpoint
Clients usually call when a pleading, hearing, discovery deadline, deposition, trial, or settlement decision requires facts that are missing, disputed, difficult to verify, or at risk of disappearing. Common triggers include:
- A party, witness, former employee, expert, custodian, heir, beneficiary, debtor, asset, business, address, vehicle, or property must be identified or located.
- Witness accounts conflict, an official report is incomplete, a key person has not been interviewed, or counsel needs a signed or recorded statement when lawful and voluntary.
- Video, public online material, physical conditions, business records, photographs, or other evidence may be overwritten, altered, moved, deleted, or forgotten.
- Corporate ownership, related entities, undisclosed interests, prior litigation, asset indicators, addresses, associates, transactions, or a chronology must be researched and mapped.
- Counsel needs surveillance, a site inspection, a neighborhood or camera canvass, activity documentation, witness development, or support for a subpoena, deposition, mediation, hearing, or trial strategy.
- An independent report and organized exhibits are needed to evaluate claims or defenses without relying only on assumptions, database matches, or one party’s account.
What to Expect
Initial intake: we identify the case caption and jurisdiction, counsel and client contacts, claims and defenses relevant to the assignment, subjects and entities, locations, known evidence, deadlines, conflicts, confidentiality, protective orders, privilege or work-product concerns, and the precise factual questions to address.
Information requested may include pleadings, orders, discovery, reports, deposition excerpts, timelines, names and aliases, identifiers, addresses, photographs or video, exhibits, correspondence, client-controlled records, prior research, witness lists, and required authorizations. Sensitive material is transferred securely.
Investigation plan: counsel and Pinpoint define lawful priorities, preservation needs, locates, interviews or statements, public-record and corporate research, asset and relationship indicators, surveillance or site work, canvasses, evidence handling, specialist coordination, fees, approved expenses, reporting contacts, and written authorization.
Fact development: verify identities and sources; locate and professionally approach cooperative witnesses; document interviews accurately; preserve public online and physical evidence; inspect and photograph locations; conduct lawful surveillance; and build clear chronologies, relationship maps, and lead lists without directing testimony or overstating conclusions.
Deliverable: a confidential chronological report with actions taken, sources, verified facts, witness information, statements, observations, photographs or secure video links, corporate and court records, exhibits, discrepancies, unresolved leads, and limitations. Follow-up, declarations or affidavits of investigative facts, exhibit preparation, and testimony are available when requested and appropriate.
Timing and Availability
Urgent preservation, locate, canvass, scene, or surveillance work may begin the same day or next business day when personnel, scope, written authorization, required information, and the retainer are available. No start time is guaranteed until the assignment is accepted.
A focused domestic public-record, corporate, court, address, or locate assignment commonly takes about three to seven business days, but common names, manual records, and incomplete identifiers can extend the work.
Witness interviews depend on locating the person, scheduling, voluntary cooperation, counsel’s contact instructions, language needs, and whether follow-up or a formal statement is requested.
Surveillance, site work, multiple people or jurisdictions, large record sets, asset or relationship analysis, foreign records, experts, and legal process through counsel can require several weeks and may proceed in phases around litigation deadlines.
Material developments can be reported promptly; the final report follows verification and organization of assigned records, field notes, interviews, photographs, video, statements, and exhibits.
Why Pinpoint
Experienced supervision: work is supervised by Igor Galitsky, a retired NYPD Sergeant/Supervisor Detective with 23 years of law-enforcement and investigative experience, including financial-crime and money-laundering investigations.
Licensed regional capability: Licensed Private Detective, in New Jersey and New York, with practical New York/New Jersey witness, surveillance, court-record, corporate-record, scene, and field-investigation experience.
Counsel-directed scope: investigative steps are tied to specific factual questions, legal deadlines, contact restrictions, confidentiality needs, and evidence priorities rather than a generic background search.
Integrated field and records work: locates, interviews, surveillance, site documentation, canvasses, court and corporate research, public online evidence, relationship mapping, asset indicators, and specialist coordination are combined as the case requires.
Evidence and witness discipline: direct observations, verified records, client-provided information, witness accounts, allegations, analytical leads, and unresolved issues are separated, dated, sourced, and preserved without coaching or shaping testimony.
Litigation-ready reporting: clear chronologies, source records, photographs, secure video links, statements, exhibits, documented limitations, and professional testimony support counsel’s evaluation, discovery, deposition, motion, mediation, hearing, and trial preparation.
Important Limits
- A private investigator is not an attorney and does not give legal advice, decide relevance or admissibility, determine liability or credibility, or control litigation strategy. Counsel directs the legal purpose and decides how investigative work is used.
- An investigator has no subpoena, search-warrant, arrest, or compulsory-testimony authority. Nonpublic records and unwilling witnesses generally require consent, client authority, or proper legal process through counsel and the court.
- Witness interviews are generally voluntary. We do not coach, script, threaten, reward, conceal material facts from counsel, or pressure a witness. A person may decline or end an interview, and represented or restricted contacts require counsel’s direction and ethical clearance.
- A database result, shared address, social-media post, allegation, arrest, lawsuit, prior claim, or relationship is not automatically proof of identity, misconduct, ownership, bias, or a disputed fact. Original sources, identifiers, dates, disposition, context, and corroboration matter.
- We do not hack accounts or devices, bypass access controls, use stolen credentials, unlawfully obtain bank/phone/email/medical records, trespass, impersonate law enforcement, or record communications where consent or legal authority is absent.
- Surveillance and fieldwork document limited assigned periods and lawful vantage points. No investigation can guarantee that a person will be found, cooperate, admit facts, appear, produce evidence, or that the case will settle or succeed.
A De-identified Example
De-identified matter: Counsel in a commercial dispute needed to identify and locate former employees and vendors, clarify relationships among several companies, and reconstruct events that were only partially reflected in the pleadings and client records.
What we did: We reviewed counsel’s factual questions and case materials; verified names, addresses, corporate histories, court matters, public online information, and associates; developed a relationship and event timeline; located and interviewed cooperative witnesses; documented relevant locations; and preserved source records, notes, photographs, statements, and unresolved leads.
General result: The report separated confirmed facts, witness accounts, discrepancies, supported relationships, possible leads, and limitations. Counsel used the organized chronology and source exhibits to prioritize discovery, subpoenas, depositions, and settlement analysis without treating unverified associations as proof or asking the investigator to make legal conclusions.
Service area and contact
Pinpoint Investigations & Security Corp. serves Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. Call 718-667-6422 to discuss your needs.
Related services: Process Serving & Other Legal Support; Written or Recorded Statements; Accident Investigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What information do you need to start?
Usually the case caption and jurisdiction; counsel and authorized client contacts; the factual questions and deadlines; pleadings, orders, reports, discovery, timelines, witness and subject names, identifiers and addresses; relevant exhibits, photographs, video, correspondence, prior research, contact restrictions, protective orders, and known concerns. We identify the minimum necessary information during intake.
Can you locate a witness, party, business, asset, or address?
Often, using lawful public, proprietary, court, corporate, property, address, vehicle, online, source, and field information. Results depend on identifiers, record quality, privacy restrictions, mobility, common names, jurisdiction, and cooperation. A locate is not a guarantee of contact, service, testimony, ownership, or recovery.
Can you interview witnesses or obtain statements?
Yes, when authorized and ethically appropriate. We approach witnesses professionally, explain our role, ask fact-focused questions, document the interview accurately, and obtain a signed or recorded statement when requested, lawful, and voluntary. We do not coach testimony, and the witness may decline or consult counsel.
Can you work confidentially with counsel?
Yes. Counsel can engage and direct the assignment, define reporting contacts, contact restrictions, secure-transfer methods, and document labels. We protect confidential information, but counsel determines whether privilege or work-product protection applies; an investigator cannot guarantee that a communication or report will be protected.
Will you provide a report or testify?
Yes. The scope normally includes a confidential chronological report with investigative actions, sources, verified findings, interviews or statements, observations, photographs or secure video links, exhibits, discrepancies, unresolved leads, and limitations. Declarations, affidavits of investigative facts, exhibit authentication support, depositions, hearings, and trial testimony are available when appropriate.
How long will it take and what will it cost?
A focused domestic records or locate assignment commonly takes about three to seven business days. Interviews, surveillance, multiple subjects, complex entities, fieldwork, foreign records, experts, or legal process may take weeks. We work on a retainer basis, and cost depends on scope, urgency, investigators, jurisdictions, field hours, mileage, tolls, records, travel, specialists, reporting, and testimony.
