For court-ready intelligence on your next case, call Smith & Carson.
Investigative depth your team can actually use.
Scoped to your case. Built for your deadline.
Scoped to your case
We don't sell packages. We scope our investigations to the facts, the venue, and the exposure — so you pay for the depth the case actually requires.
MDL-scale, single-case depth
We handle MDL-scale volume while maintaining the depth of a tailored, single-case investigation.
Court-ready deliverables
Reports are written and organized for direct use by defense teams and in the courtroom. All deliverables and supporting documentation are housed on our secure, web-based client portal.
A focused practice with the depth to handle what generalist firms cannot.
Select a service below to view scope options, methodology, and how to get started.
Phased background investigations on plaintiffs, witnesses, and other parties. Coverage includes biographical history, court and legal records, residential and employment records, financial assessment, lifestyle and medical history, news and media, and social media presence.
Reports are structured for direct use in deposition preparation, witness credibility assessment, case valuation, and trial.
Historical exposure and injury fact investigations to support defense causation themes. Scope varies by subject and allegation and may include confirming employment and residential history, determining role clarity, and obtaining building permits, inspection reports, abatement records, OSHA records, AHERA records, EPA records, maps, historical plans, and company background information.
Our team has deep experience in toxic tort, environmental, product liability, and occupational exposure matters where the timeline, the site, and the record-keeping practices of decades-old institutions all matter.
Cross-platform profile identification, investigation and analysis, forensic capture, and ongoing monitoring. Each phase is available as a standalone engagement or in combination.
Forensic captures meet court-admissible standards for data authenticity and integrity. Monitoring provides ongoing visibility through the life of the matter — from early case assessment to trial.
Background research, bias identification, and pool analytics for jury selection, combined with seated juror monitoring throughout trial. Delivered through a dedicated research team and a specialized analytics platform.
Our juror research team runs comprehensive searches on venire members quickly enough to be useful in voir dire, and continues monitoring seated jurors for conduct issues that arise during trial.
Investigative due diligence and pre-transaction intelligence on individuals and companies. Research covers competence, character, and stability across M&A, joint ventures, PE/VC transactions, executive vetting, anti-corruption, and international matters.
Engagements are tailored to the transaction — from focused background checks on a single executive candidate to multi-subject diligence packages for cross-border deals.
Mobile and foot surveillance, activity checks, and covert observation. National coverage. Detailed reports include embedded photographs and accompanying video suitable for use in depositions, mediation, and trial.
Historical locates reaching back decades. Telephonic, video, and in-person interviews conducted nationwide by investigators trained to develop cooperative, documented statements from former coworkers, neighbors, supervisors, and fact witnesses.
ACTAR-certified reconstructionists apply physics and engineering principles to physical, testimonial, and digital evidence. Our reconstructionists are qualified as expert witnesses and capable of withstanding Daubert challenges.
Bosch-certified technicians conduct downloads from vehicle Event Data Recorders. Data is preserved and documented for admissibility, and findings are integrated into broader reconstruction reports where applicable.
Our in-house development team builds proprietary web-based platforms for MDL and multi-plaintiff litigation, consolidating plaintiff records, investigation findings, and case intelligence into unified, searchable systems.
Capabilities include automated ingestion of unstructured documents, plaintiff prioritization across large populations, and configurable reporting for depositions, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation.
See what a finished report looks like.
What a finished Smith & Carson deliverable looks like. Each report is written for direct use by defense teams and organized around the decisions you need to make.
Five decades of work across the matters that define defense practice.
Our investigators bring subject-matter fluency to the industries where your cases live — from decades-old toxic exposure records to the social media footprint of a witness today.
From the firms we've worked alongside for years.
Smith & Carson can gather information about a particular Plaintiff that would take too much time and effort to do within a law firm. Moreover, it is far less expensive and more comprehensive than what a law firm could do on its own.
We have worked with Smith & Carson for years. They are vital to our job of understanding the facts of a case, assessing witness credibility, and, ultimately, valuing and resolving a case. We truly rely on the S&C team and have never been let down — they are attentive, responsive, and hardworking.
We hired Smith & Carson to conduct investigations and research for our cases because they are able to handle a large volume of cases much faster and more efficiently than if we tried to conduct the research in-house. Their reports give us foresight as to how a witness might present at deposition or to a jury. Smith & Carson has become an invaluable resource for our practice.
When your next case calls for investigative support or juror research, we hope you'll keep us in mind.
Let's discuss your case.
Every engagement begins with a consultation. We'll scope the work to your case, give you a straight answer on fit, and get started the same week when the timing requires it.