Digital Forensics
Who We Help
We help clients that require defensible handling of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), from internal investigations and regulatory inquiries to litigation and crisis response scenarios.
What We Do
We perform preliminary scoping, forensic preservation and collection (both remotely and on-premise), analysis, remediation and expert reporting across all data sources that maintain electronic records, such as computers, mobile devices, cloud systems, databases, and third-party messaging platforms, and we deliver written and verbal expert testimony when a matter requires it.
When Do Clients Call Bates Group
Clients call when there may be anticipation of litigation, or when a subpoena, examination, employee departure, IP dispute, cryptocurrency loss, or internal investigation puts them in a position where the underlying electronic evidence must be preserved defensibly, analyzed and interpreted by qualified experts.
How Clients Use Bates Group
Clients benefit from involving Bates Group on any matter that may require defensible collection and chain-of-custody procedures, user-access and behavioral analysis, cryptocurrency or digital asset-related tracing, IP and trade-secret misappropriation investigations, the quantification of remediation and expert testimony that holds up under cross-examination.
Our Approach
Our approach pairs rigorous expert oversight with AI-enabled and vetted workflows, ensuring that no trade off is necessary between speed and scale versus defensibility, chain-of-custody integrity, or the analytical judgment that decision-makers, counsel, and courts rely on.
Bates Group's forensic examiners hold leading industry credentials, contribute to standard-setting bodies such as The Sedona Conference, and have been qualified as expert witnesses across numerous jurisdictions. Whether engaged proactively to prepare for litigation or reactively in the middle of an incident, we apply the same standard of rigor from the first preservation decision through the final report.
