Brett Chatterton, Consultant, SDA

Background

Brett Chatterton is a Consultant, SDA, providing expert guidance on Structured Data Analysis. He turns complex, high-volume datasets into actionable insights, helping clients navigate financial, regulatory, and litigation challenges with confidence. At iDS, Brett applies his expertise in mathematics, economics, and computer science to uncover patterns, detect anomalies, and support data-driven decision-making, delivering clarity where it matters most. With an understanding that data doesn’t argue but reveals, Brett interprets it with precision, uncovers the patterns that matter, and delivers insights that are clear, actionable, and reliable.

He has led teams in high-stakes analyses of market manipulation, financial damages, patent disputes, and antitrust cases. Brett is experienced in the use of R, SQL, Python, Stata, and SAS to transform large datasets into expert reports and strategic recommendations. His work has included developing event study regressions, GARCH models, and custom software for automated trading data analysis, tools that have shaped litigation strategies and influenced regulatory outcomes. A Cornell University graduate with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics and a minor in Computer Science, Brett also completed a full-immersion Mandarin program at Harvard Beijing Academy. He combines technical precision with strategic insight, delivering work that is meticulous, thorough, and grounded in evidence, bringing clarity, rigor, and actionable intelligence to every client challenge.

What is at stake

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.