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On Thursday, March 17th the BBA's Criminal Law Section, New
Lawyers Section and Solo & Small Firm Section are co-sponsoring
How
to Choose, Use and Stay Out of Trouble with Private
Investigators, where a panel of professional investigators will
guide attendees through the legal and ethical considerations to be
aware of when using investigators. Given the theme of the program,
BBA Week was curious how BBA members would use a private
investigator, so we are asking: |
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"If you could
hire a private investigator to crack any case or solve any mystery,
what would it be?"
If you would like to respond to a future Voices of
the Bar, make sure you send a headshot,
and contact Eric Fullerton at efullerton@bostonbar.org.
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Edward J. Naughton - Brown Rudnick
LLP
"I'd want to solve the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum art theft. I love the museum -- it's a
work of art in itself -- and the empty frames that hang in the
gallery always remind me that the paintings are still
missing. There are fascinating theories and speculation
about who might have been involved in the theft, including
Whitey Bulger, the IRA, and, at least in one telling, Mr.
Burns of The Simpsons. On top of all that, I think that
they're still offering a $5 million reward."
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David H. Kaplan - Sullivan & Worcester
LLP
"Peter Piper, a preeminent pepper picker, is
wildly famous for the case of the disappearing peck of pickled
peppers he allegedly picked. The true mystery, however, is not
in the probable placement (or purported purloining?) of a
particular peck of picked peppers, but how Peter Piper pickled
the peppers prior to picking. If the preposterously proficient
private investigator could possibly procure plausible proof of
this perplexing puzzle, I'd personally presume his price
pennies properly paid."
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Joanna Allison - Volunteer Lawyers
Project
"I would love to know what really happened
with Amelia Earhart. Was this just the perfect escape from all
the responsibilities of impending middle age? And, if so,
where do I find a plane?"
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Adam Ruttenberg – Looney &
Grossman
"I’d like to know what happened to Jimmy
Hoffa. He disappeared when I was a kid, and he was the
subject of rumors and Saturday Night Live sketches for years
afterward. It was even said that his body was mixed with
the concrete that was used to build Giants Stadium. It
would be nice to finally have an answer."
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Melissa E. Sydney - Hinckley, Allen & Snyder
"As an art-lover, I would use a private
investigator to find the paintings that were stolen from the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and to learn the full story of
their theft."
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Joseph Griffin – Attorney at Law
"For 8
long days, our tv remote has been missing. Last night it was
finally located... In my 3 year old daughters play oven.
Surely a good PI would have tracked down the remote much
sooner."
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Dean Amrose - McGrath &
Kane
"Globally I'm a sucker for having someone
confirm or debunk innumerable conspiracy theories (e.g. Who
shot JFK? Shadow governments? Abuse of personal
databases? etc.). More topically, since I believe we may
be due for a major "market correction" with respect to
consumer tolerance of celebrity and recreational worship, I'd
like someone to investigate Charlie Sheen's "sweetheart" deals
or the real deals of NFL owners and NFLPA members – where, and
to what "good" is my consumer dollar going? Either
one would probably take an army of investigators… or maybe
just one TMZ reporter."
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Ryan Sullivan – Bodoff &
Associates
"If I could hire a private investigator
to crack any case, real or fictional, I’d want to know who put
the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop, and if there is
remaining time under the engagement also discover who put the
ram in the rama lama ding dong. These questions are much
more important to our national security than finding out who
was behind the assassination of JFK, or what actually happened
in Roswell in the summer of
1947." | | |