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.
Last updated: June 2026
Special Master & Discovery Referee
Court-appointed management of discovery in federal and state litigation — setting protocols, hearing disputes, and reporting to the court.
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.
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.
Forensic Neutral
Designing and supervising inspection and imaging protocols — giving the requesting party meaningful discovery while protecting privilege, privacy, and trade secrets.
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.
Spoliation & ESI Protocol
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 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.
Trade Secret & Forensic Inspection
Access disputes where the evidence lives on the other side's systems — balancing the need for inspection against the protection of competitively sensitive material.
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.
Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Breach
Disputes turning on how data was held, exposed, or compromised — resolved by a neutral who works fluently with security and forensic facts.
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.
Cross-Border
Discovery spanning jurisdictions and conflicting data regimes — coordinating production across borders and competing legal obligations.
Multi-jurisdiction discovery
Addresses discovery that spans jurisdictions and conflicting data-protection regimes, structuring production so it satisfies competing obligations.
Matters are described in general, non-confidential terms. Specific case names and details are listed only where they are matters of public record or otherwise cleared for disclosure. To add or expand entries, provide the source text from the JAMS profile and they will be built strictly from those facts.
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