About Us
Founded in 1995, Wolivar & Associates, Inc. (California PI Lic. No. 24090) specializes in high-level physical surveillance and specialty investigations, primarily for high-stakes litigation and sensitive security matters. WA is a street-level operations centered specialty investigative service with full-time surveillance-investigator practitioners, all of whom have proven records of successful performances on dozens of high-profile challenging assignments in Southern California. Operational capabilities include 24/7 long-term physical surveillance operations. WA has successfully conducted dozens of long term surveillance operations, several over 30 days 24/7 straight involving over 12 qualified Surveillance-Investigators surveilling a Person of Concern who has threatened workplace or school violence. WA's core investigators includes a retired member of the Los Angeles Police Department (BA, Cornell University); a retired member of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department; a retired FBI Special Agent - and a Pulitzer Prize winning National Investigative Reporter for non-surveillance specialty investigations. Clients and references include Chief Executive Officers; General Counsels; Senior HR and Risk Management; Threat Management Teams; former CIA Officers and Analysts; Senior Insurance Claim Examiners; Private Investigation Companies; Litigation Attorneys; Intelligence Analysts; Family Offices; Law Enforcement; Fortune 500; University of California; California State University
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WA has a record of discreetly securing hard-to-get, and otherwise uknown, winning information and evidence in hundreds of high-value litigation cases.
Strict client and case confidentiality. On designated cases, WA associates sign NDA's. Privacy cyber experts help ensure client and case confidentiality, to include concealing digital footprints to emails, cell phones and GPS signatures.
Michael R. Wolivar Team Leader | Confidant | Investigative Consultant
Client Quote Re $ 20 million plus lawsuit "I worked with Mike Wolivar on a patent infringement lawsuit. He was cost conscious, always kept the end goals in mind, and more than anything else, he was able to deliver results using creative investigative techniques. He was supurb. I highly recommend him." - A.G., General Counsel of International Corp.
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Mike Wolivar and street savvy investigative practitioners. Core team members have successfully worked together for over 12-years on numerous high-profile cases.
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