Learning what you need to know from reluctant or hostile witnesses or while dealing with unpopular clients or causes.
Jack Palladino and Sandra Sutherland are husband and wife lawyers on the Berkeley faculty and the best-known American private investigative team for the past three decades.
Specialising in the preparation of criminal defence and complex civil litigation for trial, they have been recognised by the US courts as expert witnesses on the role and conduct of such investigations.
They have represented high-profile clients that include President Bill Clinton, Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton, Hell’s Angel leader Sonny Barger, John DeLorean as well as Russell Crowe, Courtney Love, Mariah Carey, R. Kelly.
Palladino and Sutherland investigated the deaths of more than 900 members of the People’s Temple cult in Guyana; they went after tobacco companies in the lawsuit which resulted in the landmark $250 billion “Tobacco Wars” verdict (as depicted in the film ‘The Insider’); and pursued Michael Jackson over child molestation charges.