Court-Tested.
On the Record.
Our experts have provided testimony, declarations, depositions, and court-appointed services in dozens of federal and state matters across the categories below. Specific case captions are provided under Rule 26 retention disclosures.
High-Stakes Family Law
Engagements in contested family-court and trust litigation matters — hidden assets, deleted communications, custody-related device evidence, and authentication of disputed digital records. Work has addressed cryptocurrency wallet attribution, iCloud and Google Account preservation, and forensic recovery of communications from shared family devices.
Form of engagement: Declarations, court testimony, and forensic reports for retained family-law counsel.
Insurance Litigation
Forensic support and testimony in wrongful-death, personal injury, suspected-fraud, subrogation, and coverage-period disputes. Work has addressed authentication of social media and mobile device evidence, reconstruction of communications and location histories, and analysis of health-app and vehicle-telematics data central to liability and exposure.
Form of engagement: Declarations, depositions, court testimony, and court-appointed neutral service.
Trade Secret, IP Theft, and Departed-Employee Litigation
Forensic examination and testimony in matters involving alleged misappropriation of trade secrets, customer lists, source code, and other proprietary materials by departing employees, competitors, or strategic counterparties. Engagements have spanned the technology, financial services, medical device, industrial products, and consumer products sectors.
Form of engagement: Declarations, expert reports, depositions, and live testimony — including in expedited proceedings supporting TRO and preliminary injunction motions.
Corporate Internal Investigations
Engagements in matters involving alleged policy violations, executive misconduct, harassment, insider threats, and suspected fraud. Work has addressed off-network forensic acquisition, communications recovery, audit-log analysis, and methodology suitable for downstream EEOC, civil, or regulatory proceedings — including matters originating in M&A diligence and post-transaction investigations.
Form of engagement: Forensic reports for in-house and outside counsel; declarations and deposition support where escalation to litigation occurs.
Court-Appointed Subject Matter Expert
Appointment by the court as a subject matter expert is among the highest forms of professional recognition available to a forensic examiner. It reflects the court's determination that the appointee can be relied upon to provide independent forensic analysis that is not shaped by the interests of either party — and that the methodology will hold up under scrutiny from both sides.
Vanguard Discovery has been appointed in this role. See our Court-Appointed Neutral Services practice page for the kinds of matters where this engagement type fits.
Commercial, Employment, and Other Matters
Engagements have additionally addressed contested commercial disputes, employment matters, insurance and coverage litigation, and family-court proceedings — spanning state and federal courts across the United States. Subject matter has included communications authentication, asset and account discovery, mobile device evidence, social-media authentication, and forensic analysis of disputed digital evidence.
Form of engagement: Declarations, depositions, and court testimony as the matter required.
Specific case captions provided on retention.
A current curriculum vitae and complete testimony record — including specific case captions, jurisdictions, and the form of engagement in each matter — is provided as part of any retention disclosure under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 or applicable state-court equivalents.