Insurance disputes
Preservation of devices, accounts, communications, and system records before access changes, device turnover, or deletion.
Digital Evidence Preservation for Counsel
Digital evidence preservation and forensic data acquisition for insurance disputes, litigation holds, SIU matters, and employee departures.
Digital evidence can change or become unavailable while a matter is still developing. Preservation may therefore need to begin before decisions about claim handling, coverage, investigation, or litigation are made.
Common Preservation Needs
Litigation holds
Preservation of devices, accounts, and system records before retention periods expire or devices are returned, reassigned, retired, or wiped.
SIU
Preservation of account activity records, communications, device data, and access records in matters involving disputed activity, record manipulation, unauthorized access, or potential account or system compromise.
Employee departures
Preservation of devices, email, cloud data, and system records before access termination or device return, reassignment, replacement, or wiping.
Scope, Authority, and Timing
Written intake confirms the primary contact, sources, approved scope, timing constraints, transfer and return arrangements, and expected deliverables.
Authority and approved scope
The client identifies custodians and approves the sources, scope, and expected deliverables in writing. Authorization for access is confirmed before preservation or acquisition begins.
Related sources
Related sources may include linked backups, synchronized accounts, shared repositories, system logs, and removable media.
Timing and source availability
Stated deadlines, retention limits, access changes, deletion, and device return or turnover dates may affect preservation timing.
Transfer, return, and delivery
Transfer arrangements, return timing, delivery destination, and expected deliverables are confirmed in writing.
Preservation need not await retention of downstream counsel or experts.
Matter Documentation
Intake summary
Primary contact, custodians, sources, approved scope, preservation deadlines, and expected deliverables.
Preservation log
Sources preserved, preservation dates, and methods used.
Custody, transfer, and delivery records
Records document receipt and transfer of original devices or media, their return, and delivery of the preserved material.
Verification record
Integrity verification method, result, and any observed technical limitations.