Digital Forensics

Quickly preserving and collecting key facts can make the difference when responding to allegations and conducting investigations. This is why many of the world’s top companies and law firms engage FTI Consulting. Our senior professionals are highly experienced in rapidly assessing data populations, determining data source types, analyzing individuals’ actions, and preserving evidence. We then deliver reports on case intelligence within the shortest possible timeline, helping organizations quickly implement appropriate actions.

How We Help

With speed, efficiency and discretion, our senior digital forensics and collection professionals provide a strategic, systematic, and economic approach to analyzing, collecting and investigating the full spectrum of modern data sources. Leveraging state-of-the-art forensic technology and methodologies, we find and collect evidence in a forensically sound and defensible manner, with chain of custody intact and minimal disruption to daily business operations. Also, we are frequently called on to provide expert testimony and courtroom materials that clearly explain the evidence and methodology. Along with forensics specialists, we offer licensed private investigators, damages experts, and a full trial services team.

You benefit from our team’s experience handling all types of structured and unstructured data, including network, mobile device, social media, other cloud-based data and emerging data types such as chat and IM. In addition, we are known for our extensive multilingual experience in managing global matters, including adherence to foreign data privacy laws, and in-country cultural awareness. Our team can deploy anywhere in the world or work remotely to conduct operations with minimal disruption to your employees and operations.

Whether for a time-sensitive investigation or an end-to-end e-discovery matter, engage us to deliver:

• Expert forensic collection and investigation. We’re adept at identifying and untangling webs of interdependencies that link people, corporate entities, monetary amounts, business partners and outsiders to the critical events under analysis. You benefit from our deep experience, thoroughness, speed, and efficiency that save you costs and time. We are skilled at handling a variety of structured and unstructured data types and have conducted hundreds of successful collections and investigations including fraud, non-solicit, employee wrongdoing, pre-litigation, regulatory response, corporate due diligence and more.
• Investigative services. Clients rely on our expertise to help them prepare for and conduct witness interviews, manage key communications, and carry out fact-finding investigations to uncover evidence and identify participants in corrupt activity. We perform proactive assessments and evaluations of compliance programs or internal controls, conduct forensic accounting reviews of books and records to determine violations, reconstruct financial records to actual events, and perform background investigations of third parties to assess ongoing business relationships.
• Post-collection and investigation services. We also have deep expertise in the processing, hosting, review and production of multilingual data. Clients around the world frequently engage us to prepare sworn affidavits and declarations, deliver expert witness testimony under oath, prepare responses to government subpoenas and requests for information, create formal reports for regulators and law enforcement personnel, support legal counsel in plea negotiations and “ability to pay” defenses, and plan for initial meet and confer.