The eDiscovery solution — and the firm that engineers it.
The E-Discovery Playbook™ is a trademarked enterprise discovery solution built and delivered by Law & Forensics, a legal-engineering firm. We design the discovery operating system large institutions run on — and stand behind it when a matter puts it to the test.
A legal-engineering firm — not a vendor, not a template.
Law & Forensics sits where law, technology, and evidence meet. Our work spans digital forensics, e-discovery, cybersecurity, and information governance — the same disciplines a modern dispute draws on all at once. The E-Discovery Playbook™ is how we package that practice into a solution an institution can own: a designed, engineered discovery program, not a set of loose processes and controls.
We built the Playbook™ because most organizations don’t discover the gaps in their legal-hold, preservation, and collection procedures until a dispute forces them to. Our purpose is to move that discovery earlier — when it’s a design exercise, not a sanctions motion — and to deliver something defensible you can run without us.
Four disciplines, one defensible standard.
E-Discovery
Legal holds, preservation, custodian mapping, collection, review, and production — engineered into documented, repeatable workflows your whole team can run.
Digital Forensics
Forensically sound collection and analysis across email, mobile, cloud, and collaboration platforms, with chain of custody that withstands challenge.
Cybersecurity
Incident response and investigations — and the security questions that intersect with preservation, breach, and regulatory exposure.
Information Governance
Retention, disposition, and data mapping — so you know where your data lives before a matter makes it urgent.
Principles behind the Playbook™.
Defensible by design
Courts expect reasonable, good-faith, proportional effort — shown by a documented program, not improvisation under deadline.
Repeatable, not heroic
A process that depends on one person’s memory isn’t a process. We turn institutional knowledge into a system the organization owns.
Current with the law
The 2015 FRCP amendments, Rule 37(e), and modern data sources changed the rules. A playbook written against an older standard isn’t defensible.
Expert-backed
When a program is challenged, you need credible expertise behind it. Our team publishes, teaches, and testifies on these questions — and when a matter calls for it, you can retain an e-discovery expert to stand behind the record.
We write about this — and have for two decades.
Our team’s published scholarship on electronic discovery, digital evidence, and emerging-technology law reaches back to the earliest days of modern e-discovery. We keep it current in our Insights library — practical, plain-English guidance on legal holds, preservation, Rule 26(f) and Rule 37(e), modern collaboration data, and defensible review. When a dispute calls for a neutral, that same expertise extends to serving as an e-discovery special master.
The perspectives the Playbook™ has to satisfy.
A defensible program answers to everyone who touches a matter — the boardroom, the legal department, security, and the lawyers across the table. Here’s what each of them is really asking for.
When litigation hits, I do not want our team inventing the process under pressure. I want a defensible playbook that tells legal, IT, security, HR, and outside counsel exactly what to do, who owns each step, and how we prove it was done correctly.
Asked by: General Counsel · Public company
The board does not need to manage discovery, but it does need confidence that the company has a repeatable, documented, and defensible process before a regulator, court, or plaintiff’s lawyer starts asking hard questions.
Asked by: Board Member · Audit Committee Chair
Our discovery risk is not just about documents. It is Teams, Slack, mobile devices, cloud platforms, personal devices, ephemeral messaging, and employees working everywhere. A playbook gives us a practical way to control that complexity before it becomes a sanctions issue.
Asked by: Chief Legal Officer · Private company
Legal hold and collection cannot be a last-minute request to IT. The playbook needs to define systems, access, preservation steps, chain of custody, and escalation paths so technical teams can act quickly without guessing.
Asked by: Chief Information Security Officer
The clients best positioned in discovery disputes are the ones who can show process. A strong e-discovery playbook helps us demonstrate reasonableness, proportionality, and defensibility instead of reconstructing decisions after the fact.
Asked by: Litigation Partner · Outside Counsel
Bring the Playbook™ to your institution.
Request a briefing with the Law & Forensics e-discovery practice. We’ll walk through your gaps and what a defensible program looks like for your data sources — no obligation, conflicts checked before any engagement.
Talk to the practice.
A 30-minute working session with the Law & Forensics e-discovery practice. We'll tell you where your current posture is exposed and what it takes to close the gap.
- Response within one business day
- No cost, no obligation
- Conflicts checked before any engagement