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Specialties that pay

• Legal investigation

  Working for defense attorneys on criminal and civil cases. The National Association of Legal Investigators runs a Certified Legal Investigator board certification for this.

• Insurance fraud and surveillance

  Steady, high-volume work with insurers and their special investigation units.

• Corporate due diligence

  Checking who a company is about to buy, hire or lend to. The best paid corner of the field.

• Skip tracing

  Locating people who do not want to be found, for lenders, courts and process servers.

• Digital forensics

  Recovering and documenting evidence from phones and computers. Needs real technical training and pays for it.