GDF supports law firms, in-house counsel, litigants, and neutral appointments across commercial, employment, intellectual property, privacy, fraud, criminal, insurance, and regulatory matters. Work can begin before filing, during emergency relief, in discovery, at rebuttal, or when testimony is already scheduled.
A case theory is not an evidence protocol
Counsel identifies the claim, defense, burden, and legal standard. GDF translates the disputed technical proposition into sources, preservation steps, tests, and deliverables. The protocol states date ranges, custodians, systems, collection depth, search assumptions, access conditions, privacy limits, and how gaps will be handled.
Expert witness support from assessment through trial
Counsel seeking court-admissible digital forensics need a documented source, authorized collection, custody history, tested method, appropriately bounded opinion, and disclosure record. Courts decide admissibility. GDF addresses the technical foundation and does not provide legal advice. Assignments can include early technical assessment, eDiscovery data preservation, protocol review, neutral collection, affirmative opinions, rebuttal, demonstratives, deposition, hearing, and trial. Frye/Daubert challenge readiness is supported through preserved sources, documented methods, visible testing, and limits stated before cross-examination.
- Computer, mobile, email, cloud, database, and media evidence
- Authenticity, deletion, copying, access, attribution, and timeline disputes
- Spoliation, preservation, collection, and production-method analysis
- Opposing-expert workpaper and result review
- Plain-language reports, declarations, exhibits, and testimony
Technical practitioners, not substitute counsel
GDF explains systems, records, methods, and limitations. The firm does not provide legal advice. Counsel controls privilege, proportionality, discovery positions, admissibility motions, and legal conclusions.