"Hard evidence, rather than abstract legal argument, is what decides most legal cases." - F. Lee Bailey.
DISCREET...DILIGENT...TRUSTWORTHY
ABOUT US
SALLY APGAR is an award-winning investigative newspaper reporter who worked for more than 25 years from Boston to Minneapolis to Honolulu to South Florida. She started her career as a business reporter so that she could learn how to follow the money to build and sharpen her skills as an investigative reporter that led her to white-collar crime and political corruption investigations. As a reporter, she set herself apart early on using customized databases she designed and fed with data to analyze public records to nail investigations.
She then brought these reporting strengths for interviewing, digging, researching, locating witnesses and using databases and just common sense to her decade-old agency.
In a custom-designed investigation, Austen & Watson will use what's needed - from exhaustive database and records searches to compiling customized databases that track timelines, people and transactions to discreet surveillance, witness interviews to computer and accounting forensics - we get answers in the most economic and legal ways possible.
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CASE AREAS:
- Criminal Defense (Adult and Juvenile) for private hire and JAC (court-appointed cases paid by the Florida Judicial Administrative Commission)
- Murder/Attempted Murder
- Self-Defense Cases
- Aggravated Battery
- Sexual Abuse/Battery (Adult and child)
- Domestic Violence
- Post-Conviction Cases - Five? or 15 years after conviction? Are there any new witnesses or physical evidence out there
- Custody Cases
- DCF Defense against Dept of Children and Families in Termination of Parental Rights cases
- Witness Impeachment
- Deep Background Checks: Employees, Business Partners, Witnesses, Spouses, Sketchy Romantic interests and Caregivers
- Business Litigation - FRAUD, Business partner disputes, business-customer disputes, Breaches of Contracts and Non-Compete Agreements from a former investigative reporter
- Other? Ask us.
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CASE AREAS:
- Extensive research and documents retrieval and analysis conducted by an experienced award-winning former investigative reporter
- Extensive witness location, interviews and backgrounding conducted by an award-winning former investigative reporter
- Impeach that Star Witness
- Custom-made databases for the needs of each special case that track complicated timelines, financial trails, transactions, events, lies and contradictions.
- AI Tools are used as a roadmap but improved with human nuanced insights
- Cell tower analysis to build timelines that are integrated into chronologies
- Computer forensics
About Us
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Palm Beach County, Martin County, St. Lucie County, Indian River County, Broward County, and Miami-Dade County
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