PFC's clients include law firms, employers, financial institutions, venture capitalists, corporations, investigators, the media, and other information firms. PFC often provides custom research projects for its clients and the work is as diverse as the client base. In addition to public records research, we conduct phone research and have alliances with other research firms that provide medical literature research, patent searches, and trademark, and copyright research.

PFC research has provided clients with the following benefits:

   PFC conducted a public records background search on a company in which the corporate client was considering investing. The letterhead indicated that the subject company had offices in California, Boca Raton, and Zurich, Switzerland. PFC research exposed that there were no incorporation papers filed, that the principals had criminal records, and that the "World Headquarters" was located in a run-down apartment in Orange, California.

   An attorney client hired PFC to search public records for information concerning people running an investment club targeting the elderly and promising unrealistic returns. PFC discovered the principals of the investment club to be con men with long histories of lawsuits, judgments, tax liens, and professional licenses.

   A major media client hired PFC to work on the story surrounding the OJ Simpson murder trial. We located hard to find witnesses and documents.

   A medical facility hired PFC to conduct a pre-employment background check on a physician. PFC found that the "doctor" was not licensed and had never attended a medical school.

   A family requested a background check on a nanny they were planning to hire to care for their infant daughter. PFC found that the nanny had been charged with murder, had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and had spent five years in prison. She also had a long record of assaults and drunk driving convictions.

   An attorney asked PFC to locate a birth mother for a client. All that was known was that the mother's surname had been Brown and that the child had been born in Ohio in 1946. PFC located the birth mother after months of researching dusty records and online data.

   A PFC client wanted information about a secret drilling process developed by a competitor. Researchers combed public records and found a case involving theft of company secrets by a former employee. The case file contained detailed drawings and diagrams of the process in which our client was interested. PFC was also able to obtain aerial maps of the competitor's facility.

   PFC conducted an asset search for an attorney whose client was filing for divorce. The attorney's client believed that her husband did not accurately report all of his assets. PFC discovered that the husband had formed a corporation in the Netherlands Antilles and that the company was registered as an alien corporation in Texas. It turned out that the corporation had enormous real estate holdings throughout the United States.

   PFC developed juror profiles for the prosecution in the Scott Peterson murder trial.