Representative engagements
Selected appointments and engagements. Many matters are confidential; these are representative of the role Daniel Garrie plays when electronic discovery is the fight.
Appointed by Judge Vince Chhabria, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, to oversee discovery in one of the largest consumer-privacy MDLs in the country.
Served as neutral on contested electronic-discovery and data issues in a high-profile dispute.
Matters at the intersection of CISO liability, data-breach response, and the preservation obligations that follow an incident.
Appointed across federal and state courts — including the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania — to referee ESI disputes and supervise discovery.
Retained and appointed in data-privacy class actions and complex multi-jurisdiction discovery involving disputed collections, proportionality, and review defensibility.
Expert reports, rebuttals, and testimony on collection defensibility, spoliation, and forensic soundness — tested under Daubert and cross-examination.
On the record
“He is the person you want writing the protocol you will have to defend two years later. Nothing in his work product gives the other side a foothold.”
“We stopped treating eDiscovery as a fire drill. The playbook gave our board something concrete to see and our outside counsel something they could rely on.”
“When the judge appoints the same expert other courts appoint as Special Master, the credibility problem solves itself.”
“The readiness assessment found gaps we genuinely did not know we had — in preservation and in our messaging-app data. Fixing them before a matter beat finding out during one.”
“Our review costs became predictable for the first time. The playbook made discovery a process we run, not a crisis we survive.”
“He explains the technology so a jury follows it and an opposing expert can't muddy it. That is rarer than it sounds.”
Engage
The chaos is optional. Build the playbook before the complaint — or bring in the expert courts appoint when discovery goes wrong.