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Locating Debtors and Recovering Assets: Legal Strategies for Skip Tracing and Cryptocurrency Investigations

2025-08-15 13:00:00

3 hours

2025-08-15 13:00:00

3 hours

Master modern skip tracing techniques, asset recovery strategies, and digital asset tracing methods essential for effective debt collection and enforcement.

2025-08-15 13:00:00

3 hours

Master modern skip tracing techniques, asset recovery strategies, and digital asset tracing methods essential for effective debt collection and enforcement.

2025-08-15 13:00:00

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Course Overview

Mastering Modern Skip Tracing and Asset Recovery

Participants will learn investigative techniques for locating debtors, analyzing behavioral patterns, conducting forensic asset traces, and recovering digital assets. These skills enable legal professionals to maximize debt collection outcomes while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Skip Tracing

Navigate compliance requirements and database tools effectively.

Behavioral Analysis

Apply human behavior patterns to locate subjects.

Asset Tracing

Leverage discovery to follow financial trails.

Digital Recovery

Trace and seize cryptocurrency through legal frameworks.

Course Overview

Mastering Modern Skip Tracing and Asset Recovery

Participants will learn investigative techniques for locating debtors, analyzing behavioral patterns, conducting forensic asset traces, and recovering digital assets. These skills enable legal professionals to maximize debt collection outcomes while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Skip Tracing

Navigate compliance requirements and database tools effectively.

Behavioral Analysis

Apply human behavior patterns to locate subjects.

Asset Tracing

Leverage discovery to follow financial trails.

Digital Recovery

Trace and seize cryptocurrency through legal frameworks.

Why Attend

Why this 
program matters

Mastering skip tracing, asset tracing, and digital asset recovery equips legal professionals to locate debtors, trace hidden assets, and recover cryptocurrency in increasingly complex collection and enforcement matters.
$18.8T
Total U.S. household debt reached $18.8 trillion in Q4 2025, creating significant demand for skip tracing and debt collection expertise. (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, February 2026)
$34B
Chainalysis assisted law enforcement partners with the seizure and freezing of approximately $34 billion in cryptocurrency by year-end 2025. (Chainalysis, December 2025)
93%
Of U.S. police departments in cities with over 1 million people operate automatic license plate recognition systems used in skip tracing. (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, cited by Pelco)
$9.3B
Americans lost $9.3 billion to cryptocurrency fraud in one year—a 66% increase—driving urgent need for digital asset recovery expertise. (AARP, cited by Fraud.org, December 2025)

Agenda

Session 1

Skip Tracing Methods: Checklists, Finding Debtors, and Compliance

Session 2

Human Behavior Patterns and License Plate Recognition Technology

Session 3

Forensic Accounting Approaches to Asset Tracing Discovery

Session 4

Tracing, Seizing, and Recovering Cryptocurrency Digital Assets

clock 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Skip Tracing Methods: Checklists, Finding Debtors, and Compliance

Jim Koford

Wurz Financial Service

This session covers the fundamentals of skip tracing, including essential checklists for gathering debtor information and overcoming common challenges like outdated contact details. Participants will explore automated databases, free search resources, and critical compliance requirements under the FDCPA, FCRA, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, along with social media policies that prevent legal exposure.

Jim Koford

Wurz Financial Service

clock 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm EST

Human Behavior Patterns and License Plate Recognition Technology

Jim Koford

Wurz Financial Service

Learn how the ‘human hamster wheel’ concept reveals that skips maintain the same habits in new locations, making them predictable. This session demonstrates how to apply pattern recognition, historical LPR data with over 10 billion scans, and behavioral analysis to perform effective lite skip traces in minutes with powerful results.

Jim Koford

Wurz Financial Service

clock 3:20 pm - 3:50 pm EST

Forensic Accounting Approaches to Asset Tracing Discovery

Jim Koford

Wurz Financial Service

Explore how forensic accountants follow the money through matrimonial litigation, commercial disputes, and investigations by analyzing cash flows, physical assets, and business ownership structures. This session clarifies the distinct roles of accountants and attorneys while emphasizing the importance of primary source documents like tax filings and bank statements obtained directly from institutions.

Jim Koford

Wurz Financial Service

clock 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm EST

Tracing, Seizing, and Recovering Cryptocurrency Digital Assets

Jim Koford

Wurz Financial Service

Demystify blockchain fundamentals including public and private keys, wallet types, and the critical role of centralized exchanges as discovery choke points. Participants will learn targeted interrogatories for crypto holdings, strategies for countering obstruction tactics like the ‘lost keys’ defense, and enforcement tools including UCC Article 12’s framework for Controllable Electronic Records.

Jim Koford

Wurz Financial Service

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Key topics that will be covered

What will you learn

Attorneys will learn modern skip tracing methods, human behavior analysis for license plate recognition, forensic accounting for asset tracing, and cryptocurrency recovery strategies.

What will you gain

Attorneys will gain practical techniques for locating debtors, tracing hidden assets, ensuring legal compliance, and recovering digital assets through discovery and enforcement.

Skip Tracing
Investigative processes for locating debtors using databases, public records, and compliance frameworks.
Human Behavior
Pattern recognition and the human hamster wheel concept for predicting debtor locations.
LPR Technology
Using license plate recognition data to identify geographic patterns and locate subjects.
Asset Tracing
Forensic accounting methods to follow money through documents and transaction analysis.
Digital Assets
Blockchain fundamentals, wallet types, and cryptocurrency tracing through discovery tools.
Legal Enforcement
Motions to compel, UCC framework, and practical recovery of cryptocurrency assets.

What will you learn

Attorneys will learn modern skip tracing methods, human behavior analysis for license plate recognition, forensic accounting for asset tracing, and cryptocurrency recovery strategies.

What will you gain

Attorneys will gain practical techniques for locating debtors, tracing hidden assets, ensuring legal compliance, and recovering digital assets through discovery and enforcement.

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Joe Ervin

The Law Firm for Truck Safety, LLP
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

Kevin Foley

Reminger Co
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

Grant H. Lawson

The Law Firm for Truck Safety, LLP
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

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