Counsel / litigants / legal departments
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Preserve the source, narrow the disputed fact, expose the method, test alternatives, and prepare an expert who can explain the record without advocacy shortcuts.
Start with the disputed fact and the next deadline. These routes connect counsel to preservation, analysis and the appropriate expert specialty.
Collect the agreed sources and document exceptions.
Preserve native messages and relevant tenant records.
Collect supported messages, chats and application data.
Preserve drives and examine relevant system activity.
Connect artifacts to the disputed sequence of events.
Examine access, copying and transfers before departure.
Assess source media and signs of alteration.
Examine cloud access, exports and account changes.
Plan the technical assignment around the case schedule.
Explain device evidence, methods and competing interpretations.
Support disputed queries, counts and record relationships.
Address code comparisons, version history and technical function.
COMLAB v. Kal Tire places disputed email, metadata and a claimed malware explanation under scrutiny in an SDNY evidentiary hearing.
Rogers v. BNSF shows database and biometric records becoming trial evidence. Read the complete procedural history, including the later damages ruling and settlement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tell us what is disputed, which devices or systems may hold the answer, and the next deadline. Counsel retains all legal decisions.
Confidential intake reviewed by a New York examiner. Reference the deadline, the devices or accounts involved, and how counsel or IT wants to receive the initial call.
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