You’re preparing for a hearing or deposition and realize the one person who can confirm the facts is missing, hard to reach, or suddenly unsure about what they remember. Now you’re chasing phone numbers, old addresses, and half leads instead of focusing on legal strategy. That’s usually when people think, “Maybe we should hire an investigator.” In reality, that call should happen much earlier. Locating witnesses isn’t just running a database search. People move, change number