Case Studies

Case subjects

• All
• Digital Forensics
• Expert Witness
• Financial Fraud
• Intellectual Property
• eDiscovery
• Corporate Investigation

Case studies are grouped by their principal subject. Public court accounts cite their records; anonymized accounts describe technical work and do not establish independent outcome totals.

• Biometrics & Privacy

  Rogers v. BNSF Railway: Biometric Privacy

  GDF served as database, data-analysis, and computer-forensics experts for plaintiffs’ counsel in the first BIPA class action to reach a jury trial.

• Public Court Record

  COMLAB v. Kal Tire: Fabricated Evidence

  Metadata and computer-forensics testimony helped establish fabrication and spoliation by clear and convincing evidence.

• Intellectual Property

  Worldwide Intellectual Property Case

  Cross-border investigation into the movement and use of protected intellectual property.

• Financial Fraud

  Banking Industry: Executive-Level Financial Fraud

  Examination of executive conduct and transaction records inside a banking institution.

• Financial Fraud

  Massive Securities Fraud

  Ten-year trading-record reconstruction, including correction of a clearing-firm export error.

• Financial Fraud

  Massive Financial Fraud

  Multi-entity financial fraud investigation supported by digital evidence.

• eDiscovery

  Massive Data Discovery

  Email, document and legacy-system records organized for counsel without live mainframe access.

• Corporate Investigation

  Internal Corporate Fraud

  Internal investigation into misuse of corporate systems and authority.

• Corporate Investigation

  Corporate Investigation: Insurance Company

  Insurance-company business-systems examination supporting a regulatory review.

• Digital Forensics

  Drug Diversion Investigation

  Seized computer records examined in a pharmaceutical-product diversion investigation.

• Intellectual Property

  Intellectual Property: Garment Industry

  Onsite digital-evidence collection during a garment-counterfeiting civil seizure.

• Intellectual Property

  Intellectual Property Case

  Counterfeit-product civil seizure supported by imaging, email and financial-record analysis.