| Case Studies |
| The Case: A large European corporation was involved in patent litigation. Hundreds of custodians needed to be interviewed and electronic data had to be collected pursuant to a discovery request. The custodians were located throughout the United States and Europe. |
| D4's Role: D4 was asked to assist with the collection of electronic data from the offices within the European Union (“EU”). The protocol for collection had to be tailored to comply with the data privacy laws in the EU. D4 deployed members of its forensic team and was an integral part of a team that collected data from hundreds of custodians. |
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| The Case: An international corporation was accused of unfair employment practices. The suit claimed that the corporation had been engaging in these activities for years. The corporation was asked to produce relevant data regarding their hiring and promotion practices over a period of 20 years. Potentially relevant data was not only stored in e-mail systems and file servers but in outdated legacy databases as well. |
| D4's Role: D4 identified relevant databases, legacy and current, that contained potentially relevant data. The data was then extracted and placed into review environments for later production. After preparing a defensible collection protocol, D4 collected electronic data and e-mails from hundreds of custodians at multiple locations. |
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| The Case: A small technology company accused the defendant of not paying invoices that had been submitted over a 12 month period. The defendant claimed that they never received any invoices until the suit was filed. The defendant also claimed that due to the invoices being submitted years after the work had been completed there was no way to verify the work that had been done or match that work to the invoices. The plaintiff produced a number of documents and invoices that appeared to be dated throughout the time period in question. The defendant questioned the authenticity of the documents and invoices. |
| D4's Role: D4 was asked to verify the integrity and authenticity of the documents and invoices. There was suspicion that the documents had been created at the time of the suit and backdated to fit the plaintiffs’ story. D4 was able to review the documents and render an opinion based on the contents. |
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| The Case: A man attempting to download movies, using a popular file sharing program, was sued by a major movie studio for illegally possessing over 5 feature length films. The defendant claimed that he did attempt to download one movie but it never completed and crashed his hard drive, rendering his computer inoperable. To recover from the crash the defendant reformatted his hard drive. |
| D4's Role: D4 forensically imaged and analyzed the contents of the defendants’ hard drive. Our forensic technicians were able to uncover evidence that the drive was in fact formatted but not in the manner described by the defendant. Additionally, our technicians uncovered the fact that the computer had two separate external USB storage devices attached in the month leading up to the investigation. It was also revealed that these storage devices contained directories named Movies and Downloads. |
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| The Case: An individual was accused by his former employer of possessing and using customer lists and other proprietary and confidential information to steal business shortly after being hired by a competing organization. The defendant did return some data but it was after he had been employed at the new company for over a month. It also believed that the defendant still maintained some confidential and proprietary information. |
| D4's Role: D4's team of technicians imaged a total of three computers belonging to or used by the defendant. Utilizing industry accepted forensic software tools, the images were analyzed and results of the investigation were reported to the plaintiff. |
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