Home › Work activities › Investigate legal issues
O*NET detailed work activityInvestigate legal issues
AI-assistLook into it
13 jobs23 tasks
AI can get you up to speed fast and suggest where to look, but you need to confirm findings against real sources, records or people.
Part of Investigate criminal or legal matters, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 21 AI-assist, 2 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Analyze information gathered by investigation and report findings and recommendations.
- Investigate, evaluate, and settle claims, applying technical knowledge and human relations skills to effect fair and prompt disposal of cases and to contribute to a reduced loss ratio.
- Verify that the proper legal charges have been made against law offenders.
- Examine claims investigated by insurance adjusters, further investigating questionable claims to determine whether to authorize payments.
- Review reports of suspected fraud to determine need for further investigation.
- Lead, or participate in, fraud investigation teams.
- Investigate alleged parole violations, using interviews, surveillance, and search and seizure.
- Coordinate investigative efforts with law enforcement officers and attorneys.
- Conduct in-depth investigations of suspicious financial activity, such as suspected money-laundering efforts.
- Conduct prehearing and presentencing investigations and testify in court regarding offenders' backgrounds and recommended sentences and sentencing conditions.
- Identify or investigate violations of natural resources, waste management, recycling, or other environmental policies.
- Investigate complaints and suspected violations regarding illegal dumping, pollution, pesticides, product quality, or labeling laws.
- Monitor tapes or digital recordings to identify the source of losses.
- Investigate child abuse or neglect cases and take authorized protective action when necessary.
- Attend mediations or trials.
- Investigate applications for special licenses or permits.
- Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.
- Address special issues or situations, such as illegal or unauthorized use of equipment, or cases of electrical or acoustic shock.
- Investigate applications for duty refunds and petition for remission or mitigation of penalties when warranted.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Monitor follow-up actions in cases where violations were found, and review compliance monitoring reports.
- Determine the nature of code violations and actions to be taken, and issue written notices of violation, participating in enforcement hearings, as necessary.
- Investigate alleged license or permit violations.
- Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.