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Publishing Date Change!

As many of  you already know, starting this week, by popular demand, the Beacon Bulletin will now be published each Wednesday! We take our readers requests seriously, and the majority asked for a day in the week when they can better focus and appreciate the information we dispense. Your wish is our command – Wednesday [...]

Open KeyBoard; Insert Award. Online Defamation Suits.

We’re experiencing a trend in public profile search requests.  Our attorney and corporate clients are requesting that we patrol cyberspace for negative press attributed to their firms.  We conduct a comprehensive online sweep and return the results to our clients. This cyer-vigilance of ones career is not limited to the legal field.  Recently, a journalist,  Lee Kaplan, [...]

Happy Holidays & Some Snark!

by Lina M. Maini Happy holidays to all. We’ll be back after the New Year. But we wanted to leave you with a few thoughts… Over the years, BNI (our investigation company), staff has encountered memorable experiences, portrayed below via our friends at Billable Hours and Stus: In dealing with witnesses and evidence: Locating expert [...]

We Can’t Let This Bank Fail

by Lina M. Maini This year, for the first time in 25 years of operation, the Community Food Bank of New Jersey is running on bare shelves. People having to make decisions of whether to buy medicine or food. This is America. Lack of food is unAmerican. Please take a look at this YouTube video: [...]

Calling it Quits: When to Terminate an Employee

(This week we’re bringing you a “Classic” Beacon Bulletin, worth a second look…) In the news recently, there has been a lot of talk of employees’ right to sue “bad bosses”. The “bad boss” until now, has generally referred to management bullies whose goal has been to publicly humiliate the employee (e.g., having other employees, [...]

MedMal Research – It wasn’t the Right Leg??

This Week; Focus On: It Wasn’t the Right Leg?? MedMal Research Recently, BNI was asked to research the existence of directed protocol for the use of catgut v. synthetic sutures in the case of a surgical stapler misfire in a colectomy operation gone seriously wrong. Of course, all of the law professionals recognize the implied [...]

Bulletin Goes Technorati

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Identity Theft: Non-Internet related….

In a follow-up to our previous identity theft articles, we found examples outside the scope of the most common, internet-based scams… in particular, the little-known “Medical Identity Theft”, highlighted in the above video. Traditional tactics, coupled with BNI’s own I.D. theft simulation-exercise (reposted below), show how easily I.D. thieves can go well beyond the internet [...]

When You Absolutely, Positively Need to Be Online…

A question we are often asked by our trial law clients is, “How are you guys always connected/online?”. In the past, as WiFi technology trudged along (often mired in red tape over the telecom industry’s desire for dictatorial control over consumer usage), BNI operatives in the field have had to resort to, at best, spotty [...]

Lights, Camera… NYC Traffic Camera Locations

In the next several weeks, our faithful readers will begin to notice major updates to this site. We will be posting proprietary content, allow for interactive sections and be covering user-determined topics. As we continue with these upgrades, from time to time, we will republish a particularly popular Bulletin. This week, we’ve checked with the [...]

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