FRONTEO USA is excited to announce an expansion of our forensic services team in the US market. We have enhanced our existing forensic services with new cutting-edge digital forensics software package, and we are working on adding more certified forensic experts to our staff. In electronic discovery, the need for meticulous and thorough analysis is paramount, and we believe that our new technology offering will enable our forensic experts to meet the evolving challenges faced by law firms and corporations head-on. Our growing team of forensic experts will allow us to expand FRONTEO’s robust forensic department and enhance our comprehensive approach to digital discovery.
FRONTEO is a full-service e-discovery provider that has over two decades of experience providing forensic services to clients in US and APEC region. Our team has conducted forensic work on a range of different collections – from single workstation collections to complex multi-source collections from some of the top Fortune 500 corporations in US and has provided forensic testimony in a range of high-profile cases. In Japan, FRONTEO counts government entities as its clients due to its world-class forensic department. Today, we invite you to watch a video where FRONTEO’s data science director - Vlad Lobatchev, and a senior partner at a leading U.S. law firm Covington & Burling LLP - Ed Rippey, will talk about the role of digital forensics in electronic discovery. Our speakers will discuss the dangers of improperly done forensic work, importance of retaining qualified forensic experts for data collection or device analysis instead of a relying on a DIY approach and provide an overview of some of the challenges to cross-border forensic work. Our hope is that this video will provide a basic educational overview of the critical role that digital forensics plays in defensible electronic discovery.Mr. Rippey is an attorney specializing in complex litigation matters in a variety of practice areas and has extensive experience in patent, antitrust, copyright, securities, pharmaceutical, transportation, telecommunications, energy, mining, gaming and sports industry related litigation. He is a co-chair of the firm's Gaming Group, which represents integrated resort facilities, including casinos, as well as gaming manufacturers around the world. He is also the head of the firm's e-discovery and information management group, which represents large multinational corporations in these areas. Mr. Rippey is consistently ranked in the top tier by rating agencies such as Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Who's Who Legal, and Super Lawyers. He is described as an "astute and visionary" litigator who "combines litigation skills, deposition analysis, and case supervision.
About Covington & Burling LLP
Covington & Burling LLP is a law firm founded in 1919 in Washington, D.C., USA. The firm has a total of 13 offices in the U.S., Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, with more than 1,300 lawyers, and has received Accenture's Outstanding Counsel Diversity Award (2021), The American Lawyer's Global Legal Awards (2017), The A-List (2003-2006, 2008-2012, 2014, 2016-2018), and many others. It has served numerous Japanese corporations, trade associations, and government agencies as clients, and we are committed to further deepening our relationship with Japan through our Japan Practice Group to better meet their needs.
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