Turning a Business Dispute Into Investigative Questions

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Practical brief for attorneys, paralegals, and business teams.

A disputed invoice or lost customer is a business problem, but it is not yet an investigation plan. A productive plan breaks the concern into questions that can be checked independently.

A focused approach

For a vendor dispute, those questions might concern ownership, operating location, the identity of subcontractors, or whether a claimed service was actually observed. For a departing employee, they might concern public business affiliations or documented customer contacts.

Points to address

  • Write down the allegation separately from known facts
  • Identify a possible source for each unanswered question
  • Rank questions by their relevance to the next decision

What the findings mean

Keep the scope proportionate. An investigation that answers one decisive question can be more useful than a broad collection of unrelated background information.

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