Digital Forensics for Counsel
Digital Forensics for Utah Attorneys
The important evidence is rarely sitting in one neat file. It may be spread across a phone, a laptop, an email account, a cloud backup, a messaging platform, an external drive, or the history a user thought had disappeared.
VRI Computer Forensics
Preserve, Recover, Analyze, and Explain Digital Evidence
VRI Computer Forensics helps Utah attorneys preserve, recover, analyze, and explain that digital evidence. We work with counsel to define the questions that matter, collect the right sources, avoid unnecessary intrusion, and produce findings that can be understood by a client, opposing counsel, a judge, or a jury.
We are based in Orem and work with law firms throughout Utah. When evidence is located elsewhere, our team can coordinate or travel for defensible acquisition.
Practice Areas
Cases We Handle
Family Law
Phones, computers, photographs, messages, cloud accounts, and financial records can help counsel evaluate disputed communications, alleged deletion, location-related evidence, document authenticity, hidden-asset leads, and claims that evidence was altered or planted.
Employment Law
Employment matters frequently turn on communications and timing. We help counsel examine company and personal devices when authorized, email and collaboration data, file activity, deleted information, and the digital record surrounding a complaint, investigation, resignation, or termination.
Litigation
Contract disputes, fraud claims, partnership breakups, and shareholder matters often require counsel to reconstruct what was communicated, when a document existed, whether records changed, and what available data supports or contradicts the competing accounts.
Employee Data Theft and Trade Secrets
When a departing employee may have taken confidential information, delay matters. We help preserve and analyze evidence of file access, USB connections, cloud activity, email transfers, deletion, wiping, and other conduct relevant to a trade-secret or confidential-data dispute.
Criminal Defense
An independent review should test the evidence, not merely repeat the prosecution’s report. We help defense counsel evaluate phone and computer extractions, source data, scope, timestamps, artifacts, timelines, collection records, limitations, and whether the conclusions are supported by the underlying material.
Probate and Estate Litigation
Estate disputes may involve account access, changed credentials, communications, digital documents, devices, cloud accounts, and cryptocurrency records. We help counsel preserve and interpret available digital evidence while recognizing that access authority and provider records may be as important as the device itself.
A Defensible Approach
Start With the Question, Not the Tool
Forensic software can collect enormous amounts of data. That does not mean all of it is relevant, proportionate, or useful.
We begin by asking what counsel needs to establish or test. From there, we identify the likely evidence sources, the legal authority for collection, the risk of loss, and the narrowest defensible scope. In many matters, preservation should happen immediately while analysis can proceed in stages.
What counsel needs to establish
What evidence may exist
Legal authority for collection
Evidence-loss risk
The narrowest defensible scope
Immediate preservation
Focused analysis in stages
Working With VRI
What You Can Expect From VRI
A prompt conversation with someone who understands digital evidence.
A proposed scope tied to the actual issues in the matter.
Defensible collection and documented evidence handling.
Clear communication about timing, cost, and technical limitations.
Findings written in plain English.
Consulting, declarations, deposition support, and expert testimony when appropriate.
A straight answer when the available evidence does not support the requested conclusion.
Orem, Utah
Utah-Based. Litigation-Focused.
VRI Computer Forensics is a division of Risk Control Strategies. Our investigative firm was founded in 1996, and our computer-forensics practice dates to 2003. Our Utah team works from Orem, serving counsel across Utah County, Salt Lake County, the Wasatch Front, and statewide.
Our work is built for scrutiny from the start. That means preserving source evidence, documenting what was done, testing important findings against the available artifacts, and explaining both the conclusion and its limits.
Investigative firm founded in 1996
Computer-forensics practice since 2003
Utah team based in Orem
Serving counsel statewide
Answers for Counsel
Frequently Asked Questions
When should an attorney call a digital-forensics expert?
Do you work only with attorneys?
Can VRI guarantee that deleted information will be recovered?
Can the work be staged to control cost?
Talk With a Forensic Examiner
Tell us what happened, what evidence may exist, and what deadline you are facing. We will help you determine the next defensible step.