Our highly trained CFI e-Discovery experts possess the legal, business, project management, IT and computer forensics backgrounds to consult and manage the entire Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) process using judicially recognized and accepted methods. We’re very familiar with the mandate of California’s Electronic Discovery Act and the e-Discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding Electronically Stored Information (ESI). We offer exceptional value for our clients by providing prompt access to the ESI they want, in the most cost effective and scalable manner available – Period!

CFI e-Discovery services include:

– Planning and managing electronic discovery projects under tight schedules

– Strategic and tactical discovery request preparation

– Establishing strategies for preserving, collecting, analyzing, and processing data

– Detailed interrogatories & deposition planning for electronic discovery

– “Second chair” guidance during depositions

– Discovery response, review and evaluation

– Developing and negotiating specific inspection procedures

– Review discovery demands and provide guidance on responses

– Examinations and analysis of evidentiary data files

– Preparing comprehensive easy to understand reports

– Court qualified expert witness testimony

CFI specializes in providing uncompromising support for litigation, internal investigations, criminal matters, and expert witness testimony. We have extensive experience in planning and executing successful covert forensic imaging projects where the target subject never suspects the device was copied.

CFI searches digital storage media for evidence and investigative leads in either civil or criminal cases. Our vast expertise on spoliation of evidence matters has been battle tested in court and yielded tremendous strategic and monetary benefits to our clients. We combine an in-depth global digital forensic expertise of over 30 years with combined law enforcement, corporate security and hands-on information technology experience.

CFI examines computer hard drives, USB Drives, smartphones and legacy cellphones, tablets, PDAs, surveillance systems, GPS devices, CD/DVDs, backup tapes, networks and other storage media for evidence of interest to our clients in civil or criminal matters, and then exploits that data to the fullest to develop leads. Our activities are always conducted with the presumption that the results may be admitted in a court of law. Unless otherwise directed by the client, all examination results will be treated as evidentiary in nature.

CFI offers a full range of forensic digital data acquisition, extraction and exploitation activities worldwide. By using breakthrough searching techniques and analytical procedures, our experienced forensic examiners have recovered; deleted, erased, hidden, reformatted or partially over-written files and emails. We have extensive experience recovering key emails that have been characterized as “the smoking gun” of a case. We use specialized software to access files that are password protected and identify filenames that have been disguised.

CFI can come to your site and image potential evidence in the field during either covert or regular operations to produce a non-invasive exact bit-by-bit copy of the original, thereby preserving the integrity of the original piece of evidence. This image is returned to our lab where the forensic examiner views and searches the copied data using keywords provided by our client. Our examiners may recover whole files or fragments of files, browser histories, cookies, calendars, email history, zip files, downloads and other pertinent information, providing a snapshot of how the computer was used.

Whether clients must respond to an opposing party’s request for documents stored in company computers, or want to obtain records from a litigation opponent, CFI can guide this discovery process. We focus our efforts on uncovering valuable electronic data and maintaining the integrity of this evidence. Forensic examination services have proven valuable in the following types matters; employment, banking and financial Institutions, construction, class action, entertainment, contracts, intellectual property, Internet, real estate, securities, health care, antitrust, white collar, and violent crime.

CFI’s talented staff of Court Qualified Expert Witnesses can provide effective and hard-hitting testimony on legal matters relating to Electronically Stored Information (ESI) evidence. We have been appointed to and are currently serving on the prestigious Los Angeles Superior Court and Federal Panels of Expert Witnesses.

Our services include objective and professional case consultation for critical input and analysis on the following matters;
civil complaints and responses, requests for summary judgments, responses to summary judgments, affidavits, production of documents, interrogatories, depositions, settlement conferences, witness interviews, trial strategy and jury selection. Utilizing our fresh approach to presenting electronic evidence has yielded significant wins for our clients.