About Us

Silvania Investigative Services conducts investigative work in a variety of areas including, Divorce and Domestic, Corporate, Legal, Criminal and Criminal Defense, Missing Persons and Heir Investigations.

Jim Silvania, Ohio's most experienced Private Investigator with over 40 years of investigative experience: 22 years as Chief Investigator for the Law Firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur (270 attorneys); 17 years with the Columbus Police Department, 13 of those years as a Detective in the Intelligence Bureau investigating Organized Crime throughout Ohio; 22 years as an assistant professor/dean at the community college level; 9 years as the Executive Director and lobbyist for the Ohio Association of Security & Investigation Services. In fact, Jim wrote the book on Private Investigating in Ohio: How to Become a PI in Ohio and Other States. He is a long time member of the National Association of Legal Investigators, the Ohio Association of Security and Investigative Services and is a board Certified Legal Investigator & Fraud Examiner.

Press Release from National Association of Legal Investigators

WEST BOYLSTON, MA (February, 2008)-Franklin County legal investigator and  Columbus resident, Jim Silvania, CLI, an independent legal investigator with over 40 years  experience, recently earned the coveted Certified Legal Investigator (CLI) designation established by the National Association of Legal Investigators' (NALI) Professional Certification Board and recently administered in Ft. Lauderdale, FL .  

The CLI designation is only conferred to those experienced legal investigators who pass stringent oral and written examinations, and author a white paper that is graded and subsequently published in national investigative trade publications.  Initiated in 1978, the CLI examination is administered by a professional certification board of the National Association of Legal Investigators, Inc. twice per year.  Currently, there are only seventy five (75) active CLI's in the world, thus establishing an elite group of board Certified Legal Investigators.

For more information on NALI and/or the CLI Program and examination please visit www.NALIOnline.org  or contact the CLI Chairperson, John M. Lajoie, CLI at 508-835-2211