Roberts Investigative Services
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Private Investigator for Attorneys & Law Firms

Litigation support for Florida attorneys — witness location, records, surveillance and mitigation. We bill through the JAC for appointed counsel.

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Private Investigator for Attorneys and Law Firms

Investigative Support Built for the Courtroom, Not the Brochure

Most investigative firms sell attorneys the same list of services they sell everyone else. Litigation work is different, and the difference is not the techniques — it is that everything produced has to survive somebody hostile examining how it was produced.

Roberts Investigative Services is led by Danielle Roberts, a Florida Licensed Professional Investigator board certified in criminal defence investigation, human trafficking investigation and forensic interviewing, who worked criminal defence through the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office. That background is the reason this page exists: the work is scoped from the outset around what a courtroom will accept.

Please Note: Initial Retainer

This $500 fee serves as an initial retainer to begin the preliminary Case Review, Analysis, and Strategy Development.

Due to the unique nature of investigative work, cases with significant complexity may require additional funding. All services and fees beyond this initial retainer will be discussed with you and require your authorization before proceeding.

What We Handle for Counsel

  • Witness location and interviewing — finding people who have moved, gone quiet or are actively avoiding service, then interviewing them properly. Forensic interview training matters most where the witness is a child, a trauma victim, or someone whose account will be attacked.
  • Background and asset investigation — verified records on parties, witnesses and opposing experts: prior litigation, criminal history, undisclosed assets, corporate interests, bias and financial motive.
  • Surveillance — time-stamped documentary observation for claim verification, custody matters and civil disputes, planned so the footage is usable rather than merely dramatic.
  • Mitigation investigation — social history, records gathering and family interviews for sentencing, where the volume and sensitivity of the material is usually the constraint rather than the difficulty of obtaining it.
  • Criminal defence investigation — independent examination of the state's case: scene documentation, discovery review, alibi verification and identification of what the initial investigation did not pursue.
  • Personal injury and claim work — verification for either side, for plaintiff firms establishing the extent of an injury and for carriers and defence counsel testing it.
  • Service of process coordination and records retrieval — the procedural work that consumes paralegal time and rarely needs to.

Why Firms Instruct Us

We already work your circuit. Our office is in Fort Pierce. The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit — St. Lucie, Martin, Indian River and Okeechobee — is home territory, and we work the Fifteenth in West Palm Beach and the Eighteenth in Brevard regularly. Clerk procedures, courthouse logistics and local records practice are not things we learn at your expense.

We understand JAC billing. Court-appointed counsel funds investigative work through the Justice Administrative Commission, and that process has its own requirements. We are familiar with them.

The limits are the point. Chapter 493 and Florida Statute 934.03 constrain what any licensed investigator may lawfully do. We stay inside them, which is why what we produce does not arrive with a suppression argument attached.

We report what we find. Including the parts that do not help. You need to know about the problem before opposing counsel raises it.

Licensed and accountable. Florida agency licence #A1600287, with investigators holding their own Class C licences — verifiable through the state, and worth verifying for anyone you retain.

Your Questions Answered

Can you be paid through the Justice Administrative Commission?
Yes, and we work with appointed counsel regularly. Due process costs for court-appointed cases — including investigative work — are funded through the JAC rather than billed to the client, and the process has its own paperwork, rate structure and timing. We are used to it, which matters: an investigator who has never billed through the JAC can cost appointed counsel weeks. There is more detail on our JAC page.
Will your investigator testify?
If the case needs it, yes. That possibility shapes how the work is done from the first day — every observation logged with a time and a date, every photograph retained with its original file intact, every interview documented in a form that survives cross-examination. An investigator who cannot cleanly explain how a piece of evidence was obtained is a liability on the stand, so we work as though the stand is always in prospect.
What can you not do, and how does that protect my case?
We do not wiretap, trespass, pretext into accounts, or obtain records we have no lawful right to. Florida Chapter 493 and Florida Statute 934.03 set those limits, and they are narrower than clients frequently assume. The practical benefit to you is that nothing we hand over carries a suppression problem or an impeachment risk attached to how it was gathered. Evidence obtained carelessly does not just fail — it damages the case it was meant to support.
How quickly can you take an instruction?
For matters in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit — St. Lucie, Martin, Indian River, Okeechobee — usually within a day or two, because it is where our office is. Elsewhere in Florida it depends on whether the work is records-based, which distance does not affect at all, or field-based, which needs scheduling. Tell us the deadline on the first call and we will tell you plainly whether we can meet it.
Do you work for both plaintiff and defence?
Yes, across criminal defence, civil litigation, family law and personal injury on either side. What does not change is the standard: we report what the evidence shows, including when it is unhelpful to the instructing party. An investigator who tells you only what you want to hear is worse than no investigator, because you will not discover the problem until opposing counsel does.

Discuss a Matter

Tell us the posture of the case and the deadline. We will tell you honestly whether investigation will help it, what it would involve, and what it would cost.

The information provided on this website is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Please consult with an attorney for advice regarding your specific situation.

Where We Work

We work these cases across Florida — firms practising in the 19th Judicial Circuit in Fort Pierce, Stuart, the 15th Judicial Circuit in West Palm Beach, Vero Beach and appointed counsel billing through the JAC.

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