Where Digital Evidence Decides the Outcome.
Some matters depend more on the forensic record than on anything else in the case file. These are the practice areas where Vanguard Discovery is most often retained — and where the work we deliver is most directly tied to the outcome.
High-Stakes Family Law
Hidden assets, undisclosed accounts, deleted communications, and mobile evidence in contested custody and divorce matters. Discreet, court-ready, and quick to engage.
Learn moreDeparted Employees & IP Theft
Trade secrets, customer lists, source code, and strategic plans walking out the door — and the forensic timeline that establishes whether they did. Engaged within hours of resignation.
Learn moreInsurance Litigation
Wrongful death, fraud claims, subrogation, and policy-period disputes — where mobile, social media, and device evidence often dictate exposure. Court-appointed neutral experience.
Learn moreInternet & Web Harms
Defamation, harassment, stalking, doxing, and anonymous online conduct. Authenticated capture and attribution analysis suitable for civil and criminal proceedings.
Learn moreCorporate Internal Investigations
Policy violations, executive misconduct, harassment investigations, and insider threats. Discreet forensic work for in-house counsel and outside firms.
Learn moreDiscovery Disputes & Motion Practice
Motions to compel, ESI protocol fights, thin productions, and spoliation claims — supported by declarations that identify what was never searched, and by an examiner who appears at the status conference to explain it.
Learn moreCourt-Appointed Neutral Services
For matters where one side's productions appear thin, RFP responses are insufficient, or evidence custody is contested. Independent forensic analysis delivered to the court — breaking discovery impasses without taking either side.
Learn moreMergers & Acquisitions
Departing-executive forensics around deal close. Did anyone copy the customer list, source repo, or strategic plan before announcement? Did the target's CTO take material with them after signing? Time-sensitive, discreet, and tied directly to Litigation Readiness.
Learn morePractice-area specialization isn't marketing. It's methodology.
Every practice area has its own evidentiary pressure points: the artifacts that matter most, the timing windows that matter most, the opposing tactics most likely to be deployed. A forensic examiner who doesn't recognize those patterns produces work that may be technically correct but strategically unhelpful.
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