ATTORNEY SUPPORT
Intelligence and Research Support for Complex Legal Matters
You build the legal strategy. We find, verify, and organize the facts behind it.
Keel Point Consulting helps attorneys resolve information gaps that routine searches and standard discovery can miss. We locate people, test assertions, trace relationships and ownership, preserve digital evidence, and turn fragmented information into clear, decision-ready findings.
There Is No Magic Database
Not every answer is free. Not every answer is online. Not every public record is centralized, current, or searchable from a desk. The facts that matter may be scattered across court files, corporate records, archived websites, social platforms, device data, foreign sources, and records that must be requested or examined individually.
Our work goes beyond a search-engine result or a bulk data dump. We identify the questions that matter, collect from appropriate sources, corroborate what we find, document limitations, and explain how the findings may affect the matter. Counsel receives organized intelligence that can be used to guide discovery, interviews, motion practice, negotiation, and trial preparation.
Research Built Around the Legal Question
Every engagement begins with the decision counsel needs to make — not with a generic background-check package. Depending on the matter, our support may include:
- Locating difficult-to-find people, witnesses, heirs, owners, or affiliated parties
- Verifying identities, credentials, histories, relationships, and public claims
- Tracing companies, shell entities, beneficial interests, and control structures
- Identifying contradictions among discovery, public records, online activity, and timelines
- Capturing and preserving websites, social media, images, video, and associated metadata
- Reviewing lawfully obtained device exports, communications, and structured data
- Conducting domestic, foreign-language, and international open-source research
- Coordinating licensed investigators, forensic specialists, or financial experts when the work requires them
- Producing concise reports, chronologies, matrices, source indexes, and attorney briefings
We do not bury the answer in pages of unfiltered data. We distinguish confirmed facts from reasonable assessments, unresolved gaps, and allegations that could not be corroborated.
How We Support Counsel Across Matters
The methods may overlap, but the questions change with the matter. Select a practice area below to see how Keel Point Consulting can support counsel.
Criminal Defense and Trial Support
Criminal matters move quickly and often turn on credibility, chronology, context, and the integrity of digital evidence. We help private defense counsel identify what is missing, test the prosecution's narrative, and prepare focused intelligence for case screening, motion practice, plea negotiations, and trial.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Locate difficult-to-find witnesses, relatives, associates, and other relevant contacts
- Conduct deep background and credibility research on witnesses, experts, adversaries, and other case participants
- Verify or challenge timelines using messages, call records, device exports, metadata, public records, and online activity
- Compare discovery materials with external sources to identify contradictions, omissions, altered records, or timestamp concerns
- Capture and preserve websites, social media, video, and archived or removed online content when recoverable from lawful sources
- Review lawfully obtained phone and device data and identify issues requiring additional forensic examination
- Investigate expert qualifications, prior testimony, publications, affiliations, and public claims
- Conduct foreign-language and international research when people, evidence, or activity crosses borders
- Prepare intelligence briefs, chronologies, evidence matrices, source indexes, and targeted follow-up questions for counsel
The objective is straightforward: give counsel a clearer factual picture early enough to use it.
Civil Trial
When facts are buried beneath complexity, delay, or competing narratives, focused intelligence can change how a case is evaluated and presented. We support civil trial teams before filing, during discovery, and through trial preparation.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Investigate the personal and business backgrounds of parties and key witnesses
- Identify and verify witnesses, affiliations, conflicts, and undisclosed relationships
- Discover linked companies, LLCs, affiliate entities, and other ownership connections
- Vet expert witnesses through prior testimony, publications, credentials, disciplinary history, and public statements
- Identify online or public facts that support or undermine asserted timelines, conduct, causation, or damages
- Preserve and timestamp relevant web, social media, image, and video evidence
- Compare discovery responses with public records and digital sources to identify inconsistencies or missing facts
- Support pre-litigation case assessment with discreet, question-driven due diligence
- Track patterns across cases, companies, people, and digital sources
Our role is to help counsel find the facts the other side may not expect you to have.
Business Litigation
Business disputes rarely exist only in the contract. Ownership, control, undisclosed relationships, credibility, and conduct often determine where the real leverage lies. We help litigation teams see beyond the face of the pleadings and the ledger.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Identify shell companies, ownership webs, affiliate entities, and disguised control structures
- Locate elusive executives, employees, witnesses, former partners, and related parties
- Investigate contract fraud, resume embellishment, false credentials, and misrepresented business activity
- Test corporate histories, leadership claims, timelines, and representations against independent sources
- Vet opposing experts and identify conflicts, contradictory testimony, or credential concerns
- Research adverse litigation, regulatory, reputational, and sanctions history
- Monitor relevant social media, press coverage, corporate announcements, and adversarial positioning
- Preserve online content, metadata, and source documentation for counsel's litigation-hold and evidence strategy
- Map domestic and international relationships that may reveal hidden financial, political, or operational interests
We organize the people, entities, events, and evidence into a coherent picture counsel can use to refine strategy and pursue the next fact.
Family Law
Family law matters require precise, ethically collected information that can cut through emotion and unsupported claims. We help counsel identify hidden facts and behavioral patterns relevant to custody, support, alimony, asset division, and emergency relief.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Locate estranged, evasive, or out-of-state parties, witnesses, caregivers, and undisclosed partners
- Identify alternate names, contact information, email addresses, online profiles, and associated accounts
- Research hidden assets, income streams, business interests, employment, and indicators of undisclosed financial activity
- Identify public evidence of cohabitation, relationships, lifestyle patterns, or conduct that may contradict sworn claims
- Capture and preserve online threats, harassment, manipulation, or relevant social media activity
- Validate or challenge assertions in affidavits, financial disclosures, custody materials, and other case records
- Review metadata, communication records, and potentially altered documents for inconsistencies requiring follow-up
- Investigate out-of-state and international relationships, assets, activity, and potential threats
- Coordinate targeted tax-return, financial-document, and forensic-accounting review with qualified specialists when needed
The work is scoped carefully, collected lawfully, and reported without speculation so counsel can separate relevant evidence from noise.
Personal Injury
The most useful photograph, video, witness, or public statement may exist even when counsel does not know who created it or where it was posted. We help personal injury teams identify digital and human sources that can strengthen liability, causation, and damages analysis.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Search for photographs and video when the link, uploader, or platform is unknown
- Identify and locate potential witnesses connected to an event, location, business, or online post
- Research witness and party backgrounds for credibility, conflicts, prior claims, and relevant public conduct
- Capture and preserve social media, websites, images, video, and available metadata
- Compare public activity and statements with claimed injuries, limitations, timelines, or damages
- Identify businesses, cameras, public sources, and online communities that may hold relevant information
- Develop research leads for interviews, subpoenas, records requests, or additional investigation
- Coordinate out-of-state or international fieldwork through qualified investigative resources when needed
When the evidence is scattered across people, places, and platforms, we help counsel determine where to look and what to preserve.
Probate and Estate Matters
Probate matters often require more than a database search, particularly when an heir does not want to be found, lives abroad, has changed names, or is known only through incomplete family information. We conduct and document diligent, source-supported research so counsel can show the steps taken and move the matter forward.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Locate missing, estranged, or uncooperative heirs, beneficiaries, relatives, and other interested parties
- Resolve identities using partial information, old addresses, former phone numbers, occupations, interests, photographs, or family relationships
- Develop current contact information from historical identifiers and connected records
- Trace family, business, property, and online relationships that may reveal a person's current location
- Conduct foreign-language and international research involving heirs, beneficiaries, assets, or records outside the United States
- Distinguish same-name individuals and investigate possible matches to sanctions or other watchlists
- Identify connected companies, real property, and public asset indicators relevant to estate administration or disputes
- Prepare a clear report of sources checked, investigative steps taken, findings, limitations, and remaining leads
Our reports are designed to help counsel demonstrate a reasoned, documented search — not merely state that an online search produced no result.
Real Estate Law
Real estate transactions and disputes can turn on ownership clarity, connected parties, prior transfers, and facts that are not obvious from a single record. We help counsel identify hidden interests and validate representations before they become costly litigation or closing problems.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Confirm apparent ownership, beneficial interests, beneficiaries, and layers of LLC control
- Identify parties connected to real property, including shell entities and out-of-state or foreign owners
- Vet sellers, buyers, brokers, developers, tenants, lienholders, and other deal participants
- Research title anomalies, backdoor transfers, fraudulent conveyances, asset shielding, and disputed control
- Locate parties whose absence or nonresponse is delaying a transaction or legal proceeding
- Research zoning, regulatory, development, tax-lien, sanctions, and litigation risks
- Identify material misrepresentations or undisclosed interests using public, corporate, and digital sources
- Capture and preserve online evidence of marketing claims, ownership assertions, fraud, or changed representations
- Map financial and business ties relevant to easement, boundary, ownership, or development disputes
Whether the objective is to evaluate a transaction or litigate a dispute, we help counsel understand who and what sit behind the property record.
Tax Law
Tax matters involving businesses, estates, digital assets, or complicated ownership structures require counsel to understand what sits behind the numbers. We trace relationships, test financial claims against independent sources, and organize findings for controversy, settlement, and litigation strategy.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Investigate indicators of unreported, transferred, or international assets and income
- Identify business ties, shell entities, affiliates, owners, and publicly visible transaction relationships
- Compare financial claims, business activity, and public representations across tax years and data sources
- Research digital currency, alternative investments, and publicly attributable ownership indicators
- Identify prior regulatory activity, litigation, adverse media, whistleblower allegations, and other potential exposure
- Connect foreign interests, people, and entities to possible U.S. tax questions for counsel's evaluation
- Preserve relevant metadata, public disclosures, websites, and digital-platform records
- Prepare issue-focused research for audits, IRS controversy, Tax Court matters, and settlement evaluation
- Coordinate review of Schedules A through E and related financial records with qualified tax or forensic-accounting specialists when needed
We help counsel see the relationships and documentation gaps that a spreadsheet alone may not reveal.
Securities Law
Securities matters demand careful scrutiny of investors, issuers, brokers, executives, funding sources, public statements, and disclosure history. We provide targeted intelligence from regulatory, corporate, litigation, media, and digital sources.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Research executive, director, investor, promoter, broker, and affiliated-party histories
- Identify SEC, FINRA, OFAC, sanctions, embargo, disciplinary, litigation, and adverse-media concerns
- Validate investors, funding sources, business affiliations, and publicly represented credentials
- Cross-check filings and public claims for material omissions, inconsistent histories, or undisclosed relationships
- Investigate public indicators relevant to Rule 10b-5 theories, offering activity, and alleged misrepresentations
- Identify patterns associated with shell companies, pump-and-dump activity, undisclosed promotion, or international entities
- Research crypto assets and alternative-investment claims for potential misrepresentation
- Map influence networks and related-party connections that may conceal conflicts of interest
- Preserve public statements, websites, promotional materials, social content, and metadata for litigation support
Our work helps counsel identify reputational and regulatory concerns before they become a disclosure problem — or explain how the relationships fit together after a dispute begins.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Financial statements and deal documents do not tell the entire story. Leadership histories, silent investors, international affiliations, litigation, operational claims, cyber risk, and reputational exposure may materially change how a transaction should be evaluated.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Identify silent investors, beneficial owners, partners, shell companies, and disguised control structures
- Map corporate relationships across subsidiaries, affiliates, vendors, supply-chain partners, and jurisdictions
- Vet leadership teams, professional credentials, corporate histories, and operational claims
- Validate publicly represented clients, projects, partnerships, market activity, and business experience
- Research litigation, regulatory violations, sanctions, adverse media, and foreign political or commercial entanglements
- Identify public indicators of intellectual-property theft, trade-secret exposure, cyber vulnerabilities, or data-security concerns
- Examine vendor and supply-chain relationships for concentration, continuity, and reputational risks
- Monitor employee sentiment, labor concerns, whistleblower allegations, and other signals requiring further diligence
- Organize discrepancies, unresolved questions, and follow-up priorities for counsel and the deal team
The goal is not to eliminate uncertainty. It is to identify hidden risk early enough for the client to investigate further, change the terms, mitigate the exposure, or walk away.
Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual property disputes and transactions often hinge on first use, ownership, attribution, anonymous actors, distribution channels, and technical claims. We help counsel locate the people and digital evidence behind the alleged right or violation.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Research evidence of first use, invention, ownership history, and competing claims
- Identify prior art and public technical information relevant to counsel's analysis
- Detect apparent brand misuse, trademark dilution, product cloning, counterfeit activity, or unauthorized distribution
- Identify people and entities behind anonymous websites, domains, storefronts, accounts, or other online activity
- Search domestic, foreign, specialized, and illicit marketplaces for publicly observable indicators of misuse
- Cross-check code, images, product descriptions, and other content across platforms for apparent reuse
- Investigate technical claims in patents, filings, marketing materials, and professional biographies
- Map manufacturers, sellers, resellers, distributors, domain registrants, and related corporate entities
- Capture and preserve public IP violations, web content, social content, listings, and associated metadata
- Evaluate source, vendor, developer, researcher, or co-founder claims during transactional due diligence
We help counsel move from an anonymous violation or disputed claim to a documented set of people, entities, sources, and next steps.
Corporate Governance and Compliance
Internal risk and public exposure can quietly erode trust long before they become a lawsuit, audit finding, or headline. We support corporate counsel and compliance teams with independent research into leadership, ownership, conflicts, controls, and public representations.
Ways We Support Counsel
- Audit leadership biographies, credentials, affiliations, media history, and prior conduct
- Identify undeclared relationships, nepotism concerns, informal influence, and potential conflicts of interest
- Research donations, investments, equity interests, lobbyist relationships, and other indicators of undisclosed influence
- Identify hidden ownership, governance breaches, vendor-vetting weaknesses, and third-party risk
- Compare organizational charts, corporate records, and public information to identify inconsistent or obscured control
- Map internal political, ownership, and decision-making relationships
- Conduct pre-audit intelligence and identify evidence relevant to governance, risk, and compliance reviews
- Compare environmental, social, governance, and other public claims with documented programs and conduct
- Archive public statements, whistleblower materials supplied by counsel, and publicly available disclosures or leaks
- Preserve evidence and organize issues for internal investigations, shareholder disputes, proxy matters, and regulatory response
Better governance begins with knowing whether the people, relationships, and public claims align with the documented controls.
Clear, Decision-Ready Findings
The deliverable is matched to the question, deadline, and anticipated use. Depending on the engagement, counsel may receive:
- Due diligence assessment memoranda
- Source-supported subject, witness, executive, or expert profiles
- Chronologies and event-reconstruction timelines
- Evidence matrices and issue-to-source crosswalks
- Corporate ownership and relationship maps
- Digital-evidence capture logs and preservation packages
- Discovery-gap and follow-up request memoranda
- Research-source indexes with links, dates, and limitations
- Interim briefings for time-sensitive matters
- A final attorney briefing focused on material findings, confidence, gaps, and next steps
Reports are written for decision-makers. Findings are organized, sourced, and explained in plain language so counsel can quickly determine what matters and what should happen next.
Four-Step Process
We identify the legal team's objective, known facts, decision deadline, authorized sources, prohibited activities, and preferred deliverable.
We translate the legal question into people, entities, events, identifiers, source categories, and collection priorities.
We gather information from appropriate sources, preserve relevant evidence, compare independent records, and document conflicts or limitations.
We explain the findings, distinguish fact from assessment, identify remaining gaps, and provide practical follow-up options for counsel.
Veteran-Led Research. Direct Accountability.
Attorney Support engagements are led by senior professionals whose backgrounds span military intelligence, cybersecurity, open-source research, risk assessment, and complex due diligence. The professional responsible for scoping the work remains directly involved through analysis and delivery — with clear ownership, direct communication, and no junior hand-offs.
- Senior-level attention without adding permanent overhead
- Research shaped around the case question rather than a generic search product
- Experience connecting cyber, intelligence, corporate, financial, and physical-world information
- Clear documentation of sources, methods, limitations, and confidence
- Flexible support for urgent questions, discrete projects, and extended matters
- Direct communication with the professional responsible for the work
- A practical focus on decisions, deadlines, and usable findings
We work behind the scenes so attorneys and their staff can remain focused on legal analysis, client care, negotiation, filings, and the courtroom.
Common Questions
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Is this a background-check service?
Can you handle urgent assignments?
What do you need from counsel to begin?
Do you provide legal opinions or decide whether evidence is admissible?
BRING US THE QUESTION
When the Matter Turns on a Fact You Cannot Locate, Verify, or Explain, Start Here.
Tell us what counsel needs to know, what is already known, and when the answer is needed. We will help define a practical scope and determine the best path forward.
We typically respond within one business day. Please do not share privileged, confidential, classified, export-controlled, or highly sensitive personal information in initial contact.