Friday, February 28, 2014

Privacy Seminar Speaker: Phil Becnel, Managing Partner in Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group

Thursday, March 6, 2014
3:30 - 4:45PM in 3120 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSI)

Our visitor in the privacy honors seminar will be Phil Becnel, whose talk is titled Private Investigations and Public Privacy . He will explore the world of the private investigator - someone who works in the commercial sector but subject to many different regulatory restrictions as compared with those of a government official (especially law enforcement.)

Philip Becnel is the Managing Partner of Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group. He is the President of the Private Investigators Association of Virginia and the author of two influential investigative books: Principles of Investigative Documentation and Private Investigator Entry Level (02E). The latter is the only textbook for the entry-level course required for all private investigators in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Philip has also published in several investigative and legal journals, including The Legal Investigator, Law360, Westlaw Journal Employment and The Corporate Counselor. He has performed thousands of hours of interviews in civil, criminal and internal investigations since 1999 and has taught undergraduate courses in criminal procedure, white collar crime and criminal investigation. He has also lectured on a wide variety of investigative topics to the legal community and has been interviewed as an expert for several media stories on matters ranging from missing persons to bribery and fraud investigations. Philip earned a B.A. in Anthropology from George Mason University and a Master's in Criminal Justice from Boston University. He is a licensed private investigator in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Washington, DC.

As always, any student in the Honors College who has an interest in meeting our seminar speakers is welcome to attend class as our guest. Details on the course are at http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/purtilo/239R/

Prof. Jim Purtilo   (purtilo@cs.umd.edu)

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