Digital Forensics & Data Analytics Services:

The complexity of business processes and transactional business systems creates complex data structures. The independent, trusted digital forensics and data analytics professionals at Shin & Kim are using data to reveal underlying electronic evidence and its metadata information and to support companies during regulatory inquiries, disputes, litigation, and compliance issues. Our digital forensics and data analytics teams are enabled by extensive sets of forensic tools, scripts, reference data, and other custom-developed proprietary solutions and methodologies to assist clients on complex, cross-border, and high-profile cases. Our legal technology and data science teams ensure clients get the right technical resources needed to support and address complex cases and technical issues. Our specialists work together with our industry, regulatory, legal, and forensic technology specialists while leveraging their expertise to provide in identifying underlying issues, including fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, and sanction breaches for regulatory and white-collar defense.

Our Digital Forensics and Data Analytics professionals provide a strategic, systematic, and economic approach to collecting, analyzing, and working with our Forensic Investigation Services teams during the investigation of the full spectrum of data sources and their metadata.

Forensic Investigation Services:

Leveraging state-of-the-art forensic solutions and methodologies, our Forensic Investigation Services professionals work closely with the Digital Forensics and Data Analytics teams to identify, collect, and analyze evidence in a forensically sound and defensible manner, with a chain of custody intact with minimal client business disruptions. Also, we are frequently called on to support our Trial Support Services teams for expert testimony and courtroom technical support.

Our Forensic Investigation Services teams will identify and untangle traces of interdependencies that link people, corporate entities, financial transactions, business partners, and other entities to the critical events under investigation. Our clients can benefit from our deep experience and efficiency that reduce costs and time. Our professionals can quickly examine various structured and unstructured data during investigations in response to regulatory response and litigation ranging from intellectual property, copyright infringements, and regulatory defense.

Our clients rely on our internal and discrete investigation expertise to help them prepare for and conduct witness interviews, manage key communications, and carry out fact-finding investigations to uncover evidence and identify participants in non-compliant and unethical activities. We perform proactive assessments and evaluations of compliance programs or internal controls, conduct forensic accounting reviews of books and records to determine violations, reconstruct financial records to actual events, and perform background investigations of third parties to assess ongoing business relationships.

E-Discovery Services:

The amount of electronic data growing on-premises and in the cloud can be overwhelming from business, compliance, and legal perspectives. As such, many organizations face complex issues when dealing with electronically stored information (ESI), as well as extensive costs in responding effectively to litigation and regulatory inquiries. Our differentiated approach combines people, processes, and technology solutions that can reduce time and cost while addressing complex, cross-border eDiscovery requirements.

Our E-Discovery Services are boosted by decades of experience with both externally licensed eDiscovery tools and our proprietary eDiscovery solutions. We help our clients reduce the amount of irrelevant data through our targeted collection capabilities. Our collection methodologies help perform forensically sound, targeted collections and imaging and have preservation capabilities. These solutions collect from several data sources such as Office 365, email, calendar items, contacts, tasks, attachments, SharePoint, and social media including audio, video, and metadata information.

Throughout the eDiscovery process, we maintain a chain of custody of all data that we acquire and receive. The integration between our solutions and technologies enables our eDiscovery Services teams to maintain control of data through each phase of the eDiscovery process.

Our clients benefit from our team’s experience handling all types of structured and unstructured data, including mobile devices, social media, and other cloud-based data such as chat and IM messages. In addition, we are known for our extensive multilingual capabilities with both Korean and Foreign attorneys in managing international and cross-border matters, including adherence to foreign data privacy laws and regulations, and in-country cultural awareness. Our E-Discovery teams can deploy anywhere in the world or work remotely to conduct operations with minimal business disruption.

Document Review Services:

Shin & Kim provides sophisticated technology-driven document review services in Korean, English, and other foreign languages. Our industry experts have developed managed document review processes and tools to deliver defensible results while managing scope and budget.

Our document review managers, attorneys, and paralegals utilize proven methodologies to target and address quality issues consistently throughout the entire review process. Our document review managers are able to gather insights into productivity and quality using our technology solutions to deliver a higher-quality document review through production/disclosure.

Trial Support Services:

Clients rely on our expertise to help them prepare for and conduct witness interviews, manage key communications, and carry out fact-finding investigations to uncover evidence and identify participants in corrupt activity. We perform proactive assessments and evaluations of compliance programs or internal controls, conduct forensic accounting reviews of books and records to determine violations, reconstruct financial records to actual events, and perform background investigations of third parties to assess ongoing business relationships.

Clients around the world frequently engage us to assist in the preparation of affidavits and declarations, deliver expert witness testimony, prepare responses to government subpoenas and requests for information, create formal reports for regulators and law enforcement personnel, support legal counsel in plea negotiations, and “ability to pay” defenses and plan for initial meet and confer session.