Digital forensics meets digital dentistry
Litigation support and investigations for matters involving negligence, financial misconduct, employment conflicts, partnership disputes, and fraud, for dentists, dental specialists, and practice owners.
- Pre-litigation exploratory analysis
- Discovery assistance
- Expert witness testimony
- Digital forensics & data analysis
- Consulting (non-testifying) expert
Common questions
What expert services do you provide?
Digital forensics & data analysis; fraud investigations (unethical business conduct); examination of clinical digital records and metadata; and tort loss calculations: loss of practice goodwill, impact on future earnings, and intangible-loss claims.
What types of matters have you been consulted on?
Partnership disputes, transition (buy-sell) disputes between dentists, fraud (by an employee, contractor, or partner), malpractice, regulatory complaints, and employment claims such as wrongful dismissal.
What is your plaintiff-to-defendant engagement ratio?
Eight of ten engagements have been for defendants. Case acceptance is determined on merit and feasibility; a 30-minute consultation is generally required before accepting an engagement.
What are the most common sources of digital evidence?
Practice-management systems (clinical charting, audit logs), accounting systems, email and text messaging, intra-office chat, dental servers and workstations, digital radiography systems, and remote-access systems.
Litigation readiness
Are you ready for a lawsuit?
Dentistry is one of the most litigated professions. See how prepared your practice really is.
Digital forensics, in a nutshell
The preservation, identification, extraction, and documentation of computer evidence for use in legal challenges, used to determine who did what and when, and to recover deleted or hidden evidence. It applies to malpractice and professional liability, commercial litigation, fraud investigations, regulatory compliance, IP theft, and employment disputes.