Why Attorneys Shouldn’t Be Doing Their Own Skip Tracing

Last week an attorney called me about a defendant they couldn’t serve after six attempts. Three old addresses. Two disconnected numbers. Every lead looked good on paper but went nowhere. They had already spent hours trying to track him down themselves.

We ran a skip trace and a license plate reader report, tied him to a relative’s address, confirmed the residence, and we served him the next morning.

Here’s what I’ve learned after years in this field: skip tracing isn’t the best use of an attorney’s time. It’s work that’s better left to someone with the right skill set who does it every day.

Most attorneys can skip trace. But they probably shouldn’t. Not because it’s hard. Because it’s a time trap. What starts as “let me just run a quick search” turns into an hour chasing outdated records and people with the same name. That’s time you could be billing or moving your case forward.

Skip tracing is one of those tasks that’s better assigned to someone who does it all day. Skip tracing isn’t really just searching. It’s also about knowing where to look. It’s verifying. Cross-checking. Knowing which data is current and which is junk. Reading patterns. Confirming before anyone knocks on a door. These are skills that are refined with experience.

The goal isn’t to hand you an address. It’s to give you one that actually works on the first attempt.

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