Every one of these has a named expert behind it who will sit for the deposition. Open any discipline to see the questions it answers.
What happened on this device, when, and by whom? Was data deleted, moved, or altered? Does the artifact record support the account being given?
Forensically sound methods that are repeatable and defensible. Preserve first, analyze second, document throughout. Findings are stated in terms of what the artifacts support, and where the record is silent.
Defensible collections, artifact-level analysis, reconstructed timelines, and an expert prepared to explain all of it under examination.
When an employee departs, or is suspected of misconduct, the electronic artifacts that matter can be hyper-volatile. An ERA identifies where they live, preserves them before they change, and tells you what the employee’s digital footprint actually shows.
iDS experts serve as court-appointed neutrals, special masters for ESI discovery, and neutrals agreed on by both parties. We examine devices, mailboxes, cloud accounts, and databases under the terms of the order, and report what the data shows to the court.
Does the claimed pattern hold at population scale? What do the transactional records actually establish about conduct, hours, pricing, or class composition?
Identification, acquisition, analysis, and production of enterprise systems including SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2. We read the system before we read the data, then use visualizations and statistical models to make the volume comprehensible.
Population-level analysis rather than sample anecdote, visual exhibits a jury can follow, and testimony on method as well as result.
Do we need to process all of this, and can we defend the choice not to? How do we keep the complete source without paying to review what does not matter?
Expert judgment before processing. Our forensic experts preserve the full source defensibly, identify what is potentially relevant, and export only that into processing and review, on Relativity, RelAIR, or Nuix Discover. Everything else stays preserved under chain of custody, so we can return to the original image if the matter changes, and questions about deleted data go to forensic examination rather than review.
A reviewable record, documented decisions on scope and method, a processing scope that can be explained to opposing counsel and justified against your budget, and a witness who can explain why the search was reasonable.
Volume is not access, and access is not clarity. You should not pay to process operating-system files, unused space, or irrelevant data simply because it exists on a forensic image. We scope processing to what is relevant and proportional to the needs of the case under FRCP 26(b)(1), while the complete source stays preserved and defensible.
In one internal investigation, LeanReview™ prioritized 2,225 documents for review out of more than 3 million. Over 80% proved responsive, and 110 key documents went into the interview binders.
“Courts expect discovery to be proportional to the needs of the case. So should your invoice.”
What is the economic effect? What would have happened absent the conduct? How sensitive is the number to each assumption behind it?
Build the counterfactual explicitly. Where the damages rest on transactional data, the same firm that analyzed the data supports the model, so the two do not contradict each other on cross.
Damages and valuation analysis, sensitivity testing, rebuttal of opposing financial opinions, and testimony.
In many disputes, the number is the fight. What was lost, what it is worth, and whether the analysis behind the figure survives an opposing expert determined to break it. iDS brings decades of experience inside global financial, energy, and commodity markets to that fight, with practitioners who structured and valued complex transactions long before they were asked to opine on them, working alongside the iDS experts who uncover and validate the evidence a number rests on.
We quantify economic damages and lost profits; value businesses, assets, and financial instruments; and assess the causation that connects conduct to loss. Our team builds financial and economic models, prepares expert and rebuttal reports, and supports commercial, contract, shareholder, securities, and regulatory matters, with particular depth in energy, commodities, structured finance, and trading conduct. Every conclusion is structured for challenge and defended where it counts: in deposition, arbitration, and trial.
What happened, who was involved, and how much of it can be established rather than inferred?
Our Special Investigations Unit responds to criminal acts, government investigations, employee misconduct, and urgent internal matters. Investigative instinct paired with the evidentiary discipline that keeps findings usable later.
Findings, a documented investigative record, and privilege-aware reporting built to survive later scrutiny.
How did they get in, what did they reach, what can we demonstrate about it, and what is our notification exposure?
Expert-driven risk mitigation and incident response, tailored rather than templated. Because the same people testify, the response is documented as though it will be examined, because it often is.
Incident findings, security posture assessment, remediation priorities, and expert support if it becomes a dispute.
Where does the personal data live, and how do we respond to a DSAR within the window without over-disclosing?
Map the data, then design a review and production workflow that controls cost. The hard part is rarely locating the data; it is reviewing and turning it over efficiently.
A defensible response workflow, cross-border handling that respects GDPR and equivalents, and a repeatable process for the next request.
What data do we hold, why, and what would we be able to show about how our systems were run?
Data maps, retention policy, and Data Footprint reduction, plus audit and compliance readiness across the US and EU. Designed by people who have seen which gaps get exploited in litigation.
A governance strategy that lowers cost and risk at once, and controls you can actually evidence.
Who will stand behind this opinion when it is challenged, and will the method survive the challenge?
Expert opinions, fact witness, PMK, 30(b)(6), and data neutral engagements. Our case portfolio includes both defense and plaintiff matters, and our CEO has served as special master on multiple occasions.
A report written to withstand scrutiny, and an expert who will present it and stand behind it on paper, in deposition, and at trial.
You do not need to pick a service line first. Bring us the question you cannot answer yet. These are the ones we hear most.
We built our own methods because the off-the-shelf ones did not answer the question.
Chambers and Partners has recognized the firm nine consecutive years, and specifically for structured data and the tools built around it.
Use action data early to establish facts before the expensive phase of discovery, and resolve sooner on better information.
Explore Fact Crashing™ →Structured and unstructured analytics run together, so the transaction record and the document record are read against each other rather than separately.
Our approach to the non-traditional sources: IoT, telematics, building systems, and the devices people forget are keeping records.
A review methodology built for defensibility of the coding decision itself, not just throughput.
Matter types where these disciplines regularly run together. Since 2008 the firm has worked more than 3,000 matters, from a single mobile device to cases involving hundreds of thousands of plaintiffs and billions of records.
The earlier you understand the evidence, the better the decisions that follow.
The evidence is abundant. But volume is not access. Access is not understanding. And understanding is not an expert opinion.
Increasingly, evidence is buried across devices, applications, databases, cloud systems, transactions, and other complex sources. It must be found, preserved, made accessible, understood, and interpreted in the context of the matter. And when expert testimony is required, that understanding must support an independent, defensible opinion.
When important evidence surfaces late, assumptions may already have become strategy. When it is identified, tested, and understood early, your team can build its strategy around what can actually be shown. This isn’t just for trial. It is also for TROs, letters rogatory, discovery requests, subpoenas, depositions, summary judgment, mediation, and arbitration.
You bring the legal expertise. We bring the evidence expertise.
iDS combines technical, analytical, and subject-matter expertise to help you move from evidence to understanding, and, when necessary, from understanding to opinion and testimony.
You know the law. We help you know the evidence.
Tell us what you need to establish. We will tell you what the evidence shows, what it does not, and what it means for your case.
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