Hey folks, do y'all have a device or app recommendation for recording interviews?
Features I'm looking for are transcription to text, long battery life, and high storage capacity. I'm in a one party consent state, so being able to use it discreetly is a plus.
For context, I'm transitioning to indigent/criminal defense investigations.
I just recently passed my 40 hour CC intern exam with a 95%. I was wondering if there are any agencies that would consider sponsoring interns or any good reputable agencies I should look into? I have no experience in this field but I’ve done my research months before deciding to take this course and it’s been something I’ve been interested in doing for years. Thanks in advance.
I am in NV where 10,000 hours is needed to get licensed. I have 6,000 at least due to my masters degree in CJ and investigative training my last 7 years in the criminal defense and legal field.
I’m a bit worried as I see the range of PI salary is 18 an hour to 40. I’m technically a mid level to possibly higher up due to my experience right? I cannot take a pay cut of half my salary even though this is the job I want. I have a family to support!
Advice? Thoughts? How to discuss this (I have no idea what they may offer me if we hit it off) any agency CEOs opinion on what they’d pay me?
Same body for both:
Hey everyone,
I'm 13 and I've spent the last few months building Vaultr — a private AI legal assistant for lawyers that runs 100% on your Mac. No cloud. No data ever leaves your machine.
The problem I'm solving: lawyers using ChatGPT or Harvey risk losing attorney-client privilege. A US court recently ruled that lawyer-AI conversations lost privilege because the provider could retain and share client data. Vaultr solves this architecturally — everything stays local.
Vaultr gives lawyers two modes:
Private mode — runs 100% locally via Ollama. Nothing ever leaves your machine. Models: Phi-4 Mini, Qwen3 8B, Gemma 8B, Gemma 21B.
Cloud mode — more powerful models when needed (Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 32B via Groq, Gemini 2.5 Flash). Lawyer chooses when to use this.
What it does:
Still in beta — looking for lawyers to try it for free and give honest feedback.
Waitlist: tally.so/r/D4MvAZ
Would love brutal feedback from this community!
I need to find someone with whom I have a good amount of info. Name, phone, email, dob, last 4, license, license plate. They were living in South Carolina and now in Florida. I need info on them as I have a court order for child support and they are also ordered to pay me a chuck of money, as well as other people. She is evading and seemingly “on the run” from having to pay out any money. One attorney is filing contempt against her for failure to pay as required by a court order. Several of us are looking for her to have her served. How can I do this?
So I am based in Australia but I presume this is a universal problem. When you start marketing and strange requests come through. I am just curious on what other pi's do to deal with this?
For example, a person sent an 5000 worded enquiry through my website about how Bill Gates stole his money and wanted me to recover it and then proceeded to call and text me multiple times.