Daniel B. Garrie

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1. Cybersecurity & data breach Breach apportionment, MSSP/vendor liability, ransomware-recovery accountability, post-incident coverage, and regulatory exposure under HIPAA, GLBA, NYDFS 500, and state regimes.

   Disputes that turn on control-failure analyses, the chain of custody of breach evidence, and how to apportion blame across victims, vendors, and insurers. The hearing is often about whether a forensic image was preserved properly — and whether the data is what it purports to be.

   Co-inventor on four U.S. patents in cybersecurity forensic technology. Founder of Law & Forensics LLC. Teaches Cybersecurity Law at Harvard.

2. Artificial intelligence & algorithmic disputes Training-data provenance and scope, foundation-model licensing, generative-output infringement, algorithmic discrimination, automated-decision transparency, deepfake authentication.

   These cases turn on what went into the model, what came out of it, and whether anyone can prove either. Daniel's appointments have included foundation-model licensing arbitrations and neutral-expert assignments for algorithmic-bias inquiries.

   Advisor to Reality Defender (deepfake detection). Teaches Computer Forensics at Harvard, with an emphasis on authenticating AI-generated evidence.

3. Cryptocurrency, smart contracts & digital assets Token issuance disputes, DeFi protocol failures, exchange insolvencies, custodial losses, smart-contract performance, and the contractual perimeter of on-chain agreements.

   Disputes where the parties cannot agree on what the chain shows, what the contract was supposed to do, or who is responsible when it does something else. Resolved by a neutral who reads the trace.

   Teaches Cryptocurrency & Smart Contracts at Harvard. Certified Blockchain Engineer (IIB Council). Advisor to AnChain.ai.

4. Privacy & data protection GDPR/CCPA/CPRA enforcement, BIPA class disputes, cross-border transfer breakdowns, consent and dark-pattern claims, and supervised remediation of data-governance programs.

   Privacy matters increasingly hinge on technical questions about how data was collected, where it lives, and what consent looked like at the moment of collection — questions a generalist neutral often defers, and a technical neutral can decide.

   Court-appointed Special Master in In re Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation (N.D. Cal.).

5. Fintech, payments & banking BaaS partner failures, neobank–sponsor bank breakups, card-network and payment-rail disputes, AML/KYC enforcement spillover, e-banking outages, and the indemnity wars that follow.

   Fintech disputes typically combine financial-services regulation, contractual indemnity, and platform-engineering questions — and a generalist neutral usually has to send one of them out to an expert.

   Former Senior Team Lead, e-Banking at Westpac. Advisor to multiple fintech ventures.

6. Partnership, shareholder & closely-held disputes Founder removal, deadlock, valuation, derivative claims, oppression of minority members, and the technical post-mortems that follow a CTO-co-founder departure.

   A neutral who has built and run technology partnerships from inside the cap table — useful when the dispute is as much about who built what as it is about who owns what.

7. Venture capital & growth-stage investment disputes Founder–investor disputes, milestone-failure claims, anti-dilution and pay-to-play fights, secondary-sale conflicts, and post-acquisition R&W claims when a tech deal goes sideways.

   Resolution that holds up requires understanding both the deal paper and the underlying technology. Former partner at Pulse Advisory Venture Development Group; ongoing advisor to emerging-tech companies including AnChain.ai, Eccentex, and Clipr.ai.

8. Employment & trade-secret disputes Non-compete enforcement, executive-departure forensics, source-code exfiltration, internal-investigation disputes, EEOC mediations, and supervised ESI preservation.

   Whether either side can prove its case often depends on whether evidence was preserved properly in the first ten days. Daniel has been appointed as eDiscovery Special Master in employment class actions.

9. Intellectual property & trade secrets Source-code review protocols, software valuation, IP licensing breakdowns, and multi-hundred-million-dollar trade-secret and patent disputes in the technology sector.

   Cases that turn on whether the code is the code, what it does, and what it is worth — with a neutral whose own four patents give him a working understanding of the prosecution record.

10. E-discovery & digital forensics Special-master orders on preservation, ESI protocols, custodial identification, privilege logs, predictive coding and TAR validation, and authentication of ephemeral and chat-based evidence.

    The discipline Daniel has written the standing treatise on, and where his patented forensic capability does the most work.

    Co-author, Dispute Resolution and E-Discovery (Thomson Reuters). Member, Sedona Conference WG1 and WG6.

Evidence, not adjectives

Selected matters

One court appointment, a docket of representative engagements, and what counsel and judges who have worked with Daniel have said.

U.S.D.C., N.D. Cal. · Hon. Vince Chhabria · Special Master

In re Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation

Daniel was appointed by the court to resolve the technical questions of producing data from one of the world's largest data processors. He issued dozens of orders shaping discovery, preservation, and the authentication of platform-scale evidence in a class action representing hundreds of millions of users — setting durable benchmarks for how privacy class actions are litigated across the technology sector.

Class size

Hundreds of millions

Production scope

Platform-scale ESI

Orders issued

Dozens, on the record

Other representative engagements (identifying details withheld)

Independent recognition

Honors & recognition

Named appointments, fellowships, and press attributions — with the granting body and year on the record.