Forensic Matters

Forensic expert witnesses occupy a distinctive role in litigation. Unlike technical experts who opine on standards of care or industry practices, forensic experts apply scientific methodology to reconstruct what happened — tracing financial fraud through account records, determining the origin and cause of a structural failure, establishing cause of death from physical evidence, or recovering data from a compromised device. The rigor of that methodology, and the expert’s ability to defend it under cross-examination, is often what separates persuasive testimony from testimony that gets excluded.

Intellex has been placing forensic experts with attorneys since 1984, across accounting, engineering, pathology, digital forensics, and the full range of forensic sciences. Your advisor will identify the right specialist for your specific matter — not just the forensic discipline, but the sub-specialty, the industry context, and the testimony profile that fits your case. If your forensic need isn’t listed below, we’ll find them.

Forensic Cases We Support

Our expert witnesses and consultants have testified and consulted in matters including:

• Forensic accounting: Fraud investigation, embezzlement, financial statement manipulation, and asset tracing in commercial, family law, and criminal matters.
  
• Forensic engineering: Failure analysis, accident causation, structural collapse, and product defect investigations across civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering disciplines.
• Digital forensics & eDiscovery: Electronic evidence recovery, data breach investigation, device analysis, metadata examination, and chain of custody for electronically stored information.
• Forensic pathology: Cause and manner of death, injury pattern analysis, and autopsy interpretation in wrongful death, homicide, and personal injury matters.
• Forensic document examination: Handwriting analysis, document authentication, alterations, and signature verification in fraud, estate, and contract disputes.
• Forensic toxicology: Drug and alcohol analysis, poisoning causation, impairment determination, and post-mortem toxicology in DUI, product liability, and criminal matters.
• Forensic psychology & psychiatry: Mental state evaluation, competency to stand trial, criminal behavior analysis, and psychological damages in civil and criminal proceedings.
• Fire investigation & origin and cause: Fire causation analysis, accelerant detection, and arson investigation for insurance subrogation, product liability, and criminal defense matters.
• Ballistics & firearms: Firearm identification, trajectory analysis, gunshot residue, and shooting reconstruction in criminal and civil firearms litigation.