Sample Projects: Legal and Litigation Intelligence

SIG discovered that several employees had each stolen elements of a patented chemical product.  Together they reproduced a similar product, and were selling it competitively in another city.  SIG was able to substantiate theft of trade secrets, identify the perpetrators, document their sale of product, and obtain and analyze a sample of the product.  As a result counsel was for the client company was able to initiate legal action against the perpetrators and protect its client’s intellectual property.

Contracts of counsel’s client for cable trenching with a major telecom company were being canceled and awarded to a competitor without obvious cause.  After following the trail through three degrees of separation and several U.S. states, SIG discovered that the executive in charge of awarding the contracts at the telecom was a silent partner of the competitor. SIG analysis and documentation of an extremely complex set of interrelationships was presented to the telecom by counsel, resulting in a multi-million dollar settlement in favor of the client.

A defendant claimed he had no assets except a homestead in his state of residence and a “worthless” piece of property in another state. SIG discovered that the property the defendant had claimed to be worthless (due to its being entirely encircled by another property), in fact had mineral rights of potentially substantial value.  

SIG also found an undisclosed bank account, and documented property passed on to the defendant’s daughter using a structure of interlocking trusts.  In reality this constituted a fraudulent scheme undertaken by the defendant in an attempt to render himself “judgment proof.”

On the basis of a review of billable hours, a major national marketing company received a demand for a steep discount on a multi-million dollar bill. Despite the fact that project payment was contracted on a fee—rather than hourly—basis, a non-traditional consulting company hired by the client tried, in violation of agreement, to adjust charges to a lower number.