Forensics Investigations

Forensics Investigations

About Our Forensics Investigations Practice

Law & Forensics Forensic Practice group recognizes that in organizations today, the risk of fraud and corruption poses a growing challenge worldwide from both internal and external actors. Our Forensic Investigation team is diverse and experienced and brings to bear specialized technical and business expertise.

Our practice consists of veterans of complex high-stakes litigations and investigations involving both large and small companies. Our Forensic Investigation teams consist of legal, technical, and subject matter experts. We have a long and proven track record of delivering results when parties appear before judges, regulators, agency administrators, and arbitrators.

Our Services

100s of years of collective experience doing forensics. And of course working out of the box and solving problems…

Forensic Investigations Expert Witness Services Legal Engineering Forensic Neutral

Forensic Investigations

Conduct investigations of suspected fraud, bribery, corruption, and money laundering by both internal and external stakeholders.
Deliver strategic, systematic, and economic approaches to investigating and collect a myriad of data sources including network, mobile device, and cloud-based social media data.
Identify, collect, and analyze custodians and document locations across multiple devices and servers using eDiscovery and forensics tools.
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Expert Witness Services

Author expert reports on a wide range of forensic issues including: Analyzing the opposing party completeness of collection; Reviewing evidence of purported spoliation of ESI; Assessing client and opposing parties preservation and litigation hold actions.
Submit affidavits on a wide range of computer forensic topics including the actions of the involved parties.
Testify in civil and criminal state and federal court regarding computer forensic techniques, strategies, and protocols that were used to identify, collect, preserve, filter, process, review, analyze and produce electronically stored information and/or data.
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Legal Engineering

Work with large and small organizations to identify investigation technology solutions that meet their internal needs.
Create protocols and strategies that are both defensible and effective for in-house legal and cyber teams to leverage when conducting investigations.

Forensic Neutral

Serve as court-appointed forensic neutrals and neutral experts in some of the most complex cases, in courts all over the United States. Our experts have been appointed as forensic neutrals in dozens of cases worth $500,000 to $1.3 billion, including those arising out of sales of businesses and failed mergers; internet and software licensing agreements; senior executive employment and compensation agreements; partnership, shareholder, corporate, and accounting firm disputes; medical and health care IT services agreements; and trade secret, unfair competition, and copyright infringement related to software and internet companies.
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Case Studies by Industry

Industrial Manufacturing

Industry/Sector: Industrial Manufacturing

Type of Case: Cybersecurity Incident

Description: Hired by outside lawyers for a global industrial manufacturing company to respond to a cyber incident. Efforts included:

Examined and investigated the manner by which the cyber actor gained access to the companies systems.
Evaluated the damage done and identifying backdoors and the attributes of the hack using cutting edge technology.
Assisted the company in remediating the impact of the cyber incident.
Provided a report that was ultimately used by the client to obtain a favorable eight figure settlement with various insurance entities.

Medical Device Manufacturing

Industry/Sector: Healthcare

Type of Case: Cybersecurity Investigation

Description: Retained by a large medical device company to reverse engineer and reconstruct hardware and software environments that were hacked and destroyed in a complex cybersecurity attack. Efforts included:

- Restored systems from backups.
- Captured and created a master image from air-gapped computer systems and unique software configurations.
- Restored hundreds of laptops, desktops, and servers.
- Collected data from logs, recovered data fragments, backup images, and other sources to assist counsel in filing a nine-figure cyber insurance claim.

Aerospace and Defense

Industry/Sector: Military and Defense

Type of Case: Employment and Cybersecurity

Description: Hired by general counsel to conduct a network forensics investigation around the theft of key intellectual property via a cyberattack perpetrated by a former employee. Efforts included:

Conducted a forensic investigation of the attack using industry-standard solutions and our patented threat scanning platform, Forensic Scan (www.forensicscan.io).
Interviewed multiple staff members connected to the former employee to determine critical details connecting the employee to the intellectual property theft.
Analyzed the cyber attack vector and infected devices in a manner that discovered the underlying theft of intellectual property of the former employee.
Provided a detailed expert report documenting and calculating the damages to outside counsel, who then used the report to calculate the economic impact and resulted in a positive outcome for the client.

Clean Energy

Industry/Sector: Energy

Type of Case: Trade Secret

Description: Ran a digital forensic investigation at the direction of outside counsel for a clean energy company involved in a hotly contested trade secret case. Efforts included:

- Identified the parties of interest, collected and analyzed these users’ accounts and devices to determine if the information was misappropriated.
- Demonstrated that large amounts of copying by departing former employees of confidential information occurred.
- Created a forensic inspection protocol that was adopted by the parties and performed the associated work with protocol, which included submitting a report to the court and parties that facilitated settlement.

1000’s of Investigations

conducted

100’s of Expert Reports

written

Dozens of Trials

testified

82+ Collective Years of

experience and expertise

100’s of Companies

helped

100’s of Affidavits

written

Forensic Investigations Practice Edge

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Capabilities

Proven capabilities of delivering clients results that exceeds expectations especially with disputes and investigations all over the globe. Our Forensic Investigations practice has been involved in hundreds on investigation arising from many cases, including: Antitrust litigation, Breach responses, CCPA litigation, Civil Rights/Section 1983 litigation, Consumer class actions Consumer Protection Litigation, Copyright and trademark litigation, RICO, Criminal theft of intellectual property, Cybersecurity, Data breach litigation, Economic Espionage Employee misconduct Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) litigation, FinTech litigation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FTC and FDA regulatory investigations, GDPR compliance, Healthcare fraud, HUD and related FHA investigations., Insurance fraud, Intellectual property theft, Medical device litigation, Merger and Acquisitions (M&A) litigation, Multidistrict litigation, National security, NY DFS investigations, Patent litigation, Pension/ERISA violations, Privacy litigation, Real estate litigation, Regulatory investigations, Securities class actions, Security law violations and SEC regulatory investigations, Shareholder rights litigation, State Attorney General investigations, State privacy investigations, Stored Communication Act violation; technical issues related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Trade and Commerce disputes, violations of general Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), violations of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, White Collar Crime investigations, Workplace harassment.

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Competitive fees

Our fees structure is competitive, and we offer clients success based, hourly and fixed fee arrangements while ensuring that each engagement is spearheaded by a senior member of our team, with significant knowledge and experience.

Expertise

Our Forensic Investigations team of experts hold multiple certifications, conducted hundreds of forensic investigations, testified in hundreds of disputes, published hundreds of articles, and lectured all over the globe. More important, all engagements are lead by consultants that have at least 10 years of experience and technical training on a wide range of forensic topics and issues.

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Quality Control

All work performed undergoes a quality control review so the finished product can withstand scrutiny by opposing counsel and experts.