Services

Civil Cases

The team at NL Smith has over 30 years of legal expe­ri­ence assist­ing attor­neys win the best pos­si­ble out­comes for their clients. We have worked every­thing from high-profile volu­mi­nous lit­i­ga­tion to small claims dis­putes. Give us a call and see how we can help.

Our Ser­vices Include:

Wit­ness Locates and Inter­views / Affi­davits of Due Dili­gence
Sworn / Recorded State­ments
Locate Miss­ing Heirs and Ben­e­fi­cia­ries
Asset Loca­tion
Process Serv­ing and Notary Ser­vice
Expert Video/Photography Sur­veil­lance Ser­vices
Infi­delity and Cus­tody Dis­pute Inves­ti­ga­tions
Back­ground checks, Dri­ving Records
Lit­i­ga­tion Ser­vices
Records Retrieval and Doc­u­ment Orga­ni­za­tion /Indexing
Trial Note­book and Exhibit Prepa­ra­tion
Work­place Inves­ti­ga­tions, Dis­crim­i­na­tion Claims, Secret Shoppers

Spe­cial rates for “DEADBEAT” par­ent loca­tion on Child Sup­port Cases



Crim­i­nal Defense Cases

NL Smith Inves­tiga­tive Ser­vices, LLC is highly regarded as one of the most expe­ri­enced crim­i­nal defense inves­tiga­tive firms within the 12th Judi­cial Cir­cuit. We are an approved vender with the Jus­tice Admin­is­tra­tive Com­mis­sion (JAC), for indi­gent cases. This means JAC is directly invoiced for the ser­vices we pro­vide to your indi­gent clients.

From mis­de­meanors to high-profile cap­i­tal death penalty cases, Nancy Smith and her legal staff have devoted their careers to help­ing lawyers win favor­able out­comes for their clients. Our ser­vices are highly sought after by Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers.

Our Ser­vices Include:

Defen­dant Jail Inter­views
Wit­ness Loca­tion, State­ments, Inter­views and Trans­port
Obtain Releases and Col­lec­tion of Records
Site/Scene Mea­sure­ment and Pho­tog­ra­phy
Mit­i­ga­tion Ser­vices 
Depo­si­tion and Trial Sub­poe­nas Served
Back­ground Inves­ti­ga­tions
Waivers of Pros­e­cu­tion Affi­davits Obtained
Mobile Notary Services

Let’s work together to pro­vide your clients with the best pos­si­ble outcomes.



Death Penalty Mitigation

Our work on death penalty cases began in 1998 with the Office of the Pub­lic Defender in the 12th Judi­cial Cir­cuit. Nancy had the priv­i­lege of work­ing with esteemed attor­neys Adam Tebrugge of Tebrugge Legal, and the late James Slater on some of the area’s most high-profile cases.  Both attor­neys have a rep­u­ta­tion for excel­lence and were instru­men­tal in the plan­ning of the Florida Pub­lic Defender Life Over Death Seminars.

This pas­sion has con­tin­ued since start­ing her own inves­tiga­tive firm.
Nancy and her staff will work dili­gently to pro­vide you with:

All Defen­dant and Fam­ily Records
Loca­tion and inter­views with Fam­ily Mem­bers and other per­ti­nent per­sons
Time­lines depict­ing your client’s fam­ily life and work, social and med­ical his­tory
Reas­sur­ance to the Defen­dant and their Fam­ily
Assis­tance in devel­op­ing a mit­i­ga­tion theme
Con­flict res­o­lu­tion and assistance

Our devo­tion and com­mit­ment is read­ily appar­ent to the inmates we work with as well, thus cre­at­ing the nec­es­sary bond to pull out the tough infor­ma­tion in some tough sit­u­a­tions. We’ve been there and have the exper­tise and the pas­sion to get the job done.



Cheaters: Infi­delity Investigations

When is it time to hire some­one to inves­ti­gate your spouse?

In our expe­ri­ence, by the time you’ve got­ten to this point, you have a pretty good clue your other half is up to some­thing.  Some peo­ple already know exactly what is going on while most oth­ers just have sus­pi­cions. It’s that need to know the truth which fuels most of these investigations.

Call and speak with one of our inves­ti­ga­tors. The con­sul­ta­tion is free and we can help you with some ideas you can do on your own to get more infor­ma­tion. What you shouldn’t do is make accu­sa­tions and ask too many ques­tions.  That will only tip them off and make it even harder to get at the truth once they know you sus­pect them.  

If you still have more ques­tions than answers, you may deter­mine you wish to con­duct sur­veil­lance. We have expert female and male inves­ti­ga­tors avail­able to con­duct cus­tom tai­lored inves­ti­ga­tions to help you get at the truth.

Rarely is a client com­pletely blind­sided by our find­ings, and what you do with the infor­ma­tion we gather is up to you. But we believe that knowl­edge is power and it’s always a good idea to know who you can trust.

Our inves­ti­ga­tions are pro­fes­sional, afford­able and com­pletely confidential.



Back­ground Investigations

Employ­ment Appli­ca­tion Ver­i­fi­ca­tion and Screening

They have the look.  They have the resume.  And they “talk the talk.“
But has this appli­cant really “walked the walk?“
Check out poten­tial hires before turn­ing over the keys to your business.

Typ­i­cal Infor­ma­tion Uncov­ered In a Back­ground Investigation

Name and Address his­tory, Aliases, Oth­ers liv­ing at Same Address
Date of Birth, Fam­ily Mem­bers and Asso­ciates
Bank­ruptcy Fil­ings, Judg­ments and Tax Liens, Mar­riage and Divorce Info
Prop­erty Own­er­ship, Tax and Appraisal Infor­ma­tion
Vehi­cle Own­er­ship and Dri­ving Records
Pro­fes­sional Licenses and Busi­ness Own­er­ship
Crim­i­nal Arrest His­tory, Sex Offenders

Records Retrieval — We are experts at locat­ing and retriev­ing doc­u­ments and records., Our back­ground checks are done by licensed inves­ti­ga­tors who will speak directly with you about your con­cerns, allow­ing us to focus on what you care about most. We can design an inves­ti­ga­tion / back­ground check to meet your needs, pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion relat­ing to what you want to know.

Social Net­work­ing and Inter­net Dat­ing Verifications

Is this per­son who they claim to be? Is this even a real per­son?
Inter­net dat­ing has become quite main­stream, and with it, so have the scam­mers and play­ers who are out there post­ing their lies right along with the legit­i­mate peo­ple look­ing for love.

Com­mon sense is a must. Don’t put your heart, your finances and even your per­sonal safety at risk. Any legit­i­mate per­son will give you enough ver­i­fi­able infor­ma­tion to check out their story. And if they won’t, well, their hid­ing some­thing, plain and simple.

Don’t be a vic­tim. It’s always sad when we get calls after the fact, and usu­ally, upon closer look, the red flags are there, but were ignored until it was too late.

The time to check things out is before you bring them home to meet the fam­ily, loan them the money or turn over the keys to your car, your home or your heart.

We pro­vide back­ground checks designed to meet any bud­get or need.



Inter­net Daters

Infor­ma­tion from actual cases

Don’t Give Your Home Address To Some­one You’ve Never Met In Person
The scam­mer will say they want to send flow­ers or gifts, and often do so to get you on the hook.  Sounds nice? A client was forced to move when she refused to send money to her hand­some mil­i­tary guy and received repeated death threats as a result. The mil­i­tary guy is a com­mon scam. The pho­tos pro­vided her were mined from the inter­net and the sol­dier depicted had no idea his image was being used to com­mit a crime. The local author­i­ties were NO HELP whatsoever.

Do Not Loan Money To Some­one You’ve Never Met In Person

Typ­i­cally, you are con­tacted by a very charm­ing indi­vid­ual from out of town, pos­si­bly even out of the coun­try. Your rela­tion­ship devel­ops very quickly and the “love” blos­soms, some con­tin­u­ing on for over six months via tele­phone calls, chats and email.  How­ever every sched­uled in-person meet­ing gets can­celed at the last minute, due to some emer­gency. Even­tu­ally, the request for money comes in; You can be sure it will sound like a good rea­son, but once you’ve sent money… more requests will roll in. Should you start to ask ques­tions or push for a meet­ing, you receive a lec­ture about the impor­tance of “trust”. Even­tu­ally you get word that sadly, your sweet­heart has passed away. One vic­tim was even pro­vided hospital/cemetery details and was directed to a highly sophis­ti­cated web­site indi­cat­ing he and his “dearly departed” had sev­eral hun­dred thou­sand dol­lars on deposit!  All bogus!!!

Do not allow some­one you’ve met online into your home until you have inde­pen­dently con­firmed the person’s full name, address, and occupation.

Open a sep­a­rate email account just for your online dat­ing use.

Play­ers are every­where. Many per­sons state they are divorced when in fact, they are only sep­a­rated, and in many cases, still liv­ing at home with their spouse. Many jobs require out of town travel and the temp­ta­tion to have a work­week lover in a dif­fer­ent city is strong and rel­a­tively easy to pull off.  Be sus­pi­cious if your out of town lover is totally silent on the week­ends and you don’t hear from them until they are back in town.

This infor­ma­tion is not meant to scare you, but rather advise you on how to have a smarter, safer online dat­ing expe­ri­ence.   We know many cou­ples who met online and it remains a great dat­ing source.  Just know that any legit per­son will pro­vide enough ver­i­fi­able infor­ma­tion to be inde­pen­dently con­firmed.   Ask lots of ques­tions and don’t get “sweet-talked or bul­lied” into things which are not comfortable.  Think about con­fid­ing in a trusted friend and then lis­ten to their opin­ion before doing some­thing you may later regret.

We pro­vide sim­ple or extended back­ground checks designed to meet any bud­get or need. GO >



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N.L. Smith Inves­ti­ga­tions LLC
4411 Bee Ridge Road, #248
Sara­sota, Florida 34233
tel:  941.735.9434
fax: 941.923.7501