Representative matters

Organized by the dispute, not the industry.

Selected discovery referee, special master, and forensic neutral appointments, grouped by the kind of discovery dispute resolved. Engagement of Daniel Garrie as a neutral is administered through JAMS.

01 — Special Master & Discovery Referee

Court-appointed management of discovery.

Court-appointed management of discovery in federal and state litigation — setting protocols, hearing disputes, and reporting to the court.

Federal · N.D. Cal. Special Master — In re Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Appointed by Judge Vince Chhabria as Special Master in the consolidated consumer-privacy litigation in the Northern District of California.

State courts · nationwide Discovery referee — dozens of appointments Appointed as a discovery referee on dozens of matters, including in the Los Angeles County Superior Court and in courts in Washington, New York, Illinois, Florida, Nevada, and elsewhere.

02 — Forensic Neutral

Inspection and imaging protocols.

Designing and supervising inspection and imaging protocols — giving the requesting party meaningful discovery while protecting privilege, privacy, and trade secrets.

Forensic inspection Neutral forensic examiner — system and device inspection protocols Serves as a neutral forensic examiner, designing and running protocols for the imaging and examination of systems, devices, and accounts under defined chain-of-custody and disclosure terms.

03 — Spoliation & ESI Protocol

Preservation failures and production protocols.

Preservation failures and the protocols that govern production — separating genuine loss from ordinary system behavior, and resolving the protocol before it hardens into a motion.

ESI · preservation ESI protocol and spoliation disputes Resolves disputes over the preservation, collection, and production of electronically stored information, including allegations that servers, mobile devices, cloud accounts, and other sources were lost or altered.

04 — Trade Secret & Forensic Inspection

Access disputes over sensitive systems.

Access disputes where the evidence lives on the other side's systems — balancing the need for inspection against the protection of competitively sensitive material.

Trade secret Inspection protocols in trade-secret disputes Designs and supervises neutral inspection protocols in trade-secret matters, where the requesting party needs access to systems that also hold the producing party's confidential information.

05 — Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Breach

Disputes over how data was held or exposed.

Disputes turning on how data was held, exposed, or compromised — resolved by a neutral who works fluently with security and forensic facts.

Cybersecurity · privacy Data-breach and privacy discovery disputes Resolves discovery disputes in cybersecurity, privacy, and data-breach matters, drawing on more than two decades at the intersection of law and technology and four U.S. cybersecurity patents.

06 — Cross-Border

Discovery across jurisdictions.

Discovery spanning jurisdictions and conflicting data regimes — coordinating production across borders and competing legal obligations.

Cross-border Multi-jurisdiction discovery Addresses discovery that spans jurisdictions and conflicting data-protection regimes, structuring production so it satisfies competing obligations.

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