When a matter starts, so does the clock. TCDI’s certified forensic analysts work alongside your legal, compliance and IT teams to defensibly collect data and prepare it for processing and review. From our London office and US-based forensics team, we support UK, EU and cross-border matters with the same standards of care from first device to final production. One team, one chain of custody and one point of contact from start to finish.
Information today rarely sits in one system. Custodian data lives across laptops, mobile devices, chat platforms and a growing list of cloud applications, each with its own access requirements and forensic considerations. Our team is trained to defensibly collect information from each source, with chain of custody and encryption applied throughout.
Laptops, desktops and external drives still hold a significant share of evidence in most matters.
Our analysts perform forensically sound collections from corporate and BYOD endpoints, capturing what your matter requires while leaving the rest untouched.
Phones and tablets hold a growing share of business-relevant communications, often in applications that never make it onto a corporate laptop. We collect from iOS and Android devices using forensically defensible methods, capturing:
For matters involving BYOD, international travel or sensitive personal data, we plan collections in line with privacy obligations and your internal policies.
So much of today’s discoverable data lives in cloud-hosted platforms, from collaboration tools like Microsoft 365 and Slack to social platforms like LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
Each platform has its own access rules and considerations, so our team applies authenticated, platform-aware methods to collect the targeted information your matter requires.
Social media brings its own complications, with content that can change or disappear within hours and often sits behind privacy controls. We work with your legal team to design collections that preserve authenticity and stay within UK GDPR and platform terms.
From there, you have the option to leverage our proprietary technology, Communication Intelligence. Applied during processing and compatible with both CVSuite and RelativityOne, Communication Intelligence threads conversations across devices and shows deleted messages in their original context.
Cross-border matters bring regulatory complexity into every step of the workflow. Data privacy regulations like UK GDPR and EU GDPR set strict limits on how personal data crosses borders, and country-specific localisation rules can add further constraints.
We work with your team and outside counsel from the outset to design a collection strategy that meets disclosure obligations without breaching regulatory boundaries.
Where data must remain in jurisdiction, we engage trusted in-country partners to perform the collection itself, all under the oversight of our London team. Localised processing and defensible culling happen at the source, so only the legally permissible data set ever travels onward.
From scoping through to production, methodology and chain of custody stay consistent regardless of who is on the ground.
Forensic collection is usually just the start. Most matters carry on into disclosure or investigation work after collection finishes. TCDI provides solutions across the entire matter lifecycle, so the work continues with the same team and the same standards from one stage to the next.
Your preserved data is processed and moves directly into the hosting environment of your choice:
The same project manager and team stay with you, so the context built during collection carries into review rather than getting lost in translation between vendors.
