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Litigation Support
Documentation, analysis, and digital strategy at the direction of the licensed counsel you retain. We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice. We give your attorneys the evidentiary and technical material the digital dimension of a matter requires.
When a reputational matter acquires a legal dimension, two things become true at once. Your attorney is in charge, and your attorney is probably not equipped to document a distributed digital footprint to an evidentiary standard. That gap is where we work.
The work is largely evidentiary. Defamation matters turn on demonstrating publication, reach, persistence, and harm, each of which is a technical exercise in a digital context. When was this published, and can that be proven? How many people plausibly saw it? Where has it been syndicated, cached, archived, screenshotted, and re-posted? What did the search results actually look like on a given date, and can that be shown rather than asserted?
The second half is strategic coordination. Litigation is public. Filing creates a durable record that is itself searchable, and it frequently generates more visibility than the original material. The well-documented outcome where a plaintiff wins the case and loses the search results. That trade-off is a decision for you and your counsel, and it deserves to be made with the digital consequences quantified rather than assumed.
We also work after judgment. A court order requiring removal still has to be executed against platforms, indexes, caches, archives, and syndication partners, several of which will not respond to a legal document alone.
When it applies
The situations this is the right tool for.
Counsel is assessing a defamation claim
The technical record of publication, reach, and persistence has to be documented before merits can be evaluated properly.
A matter is already filed
Ongoing documentation of the digital record as it develops, including material published after filing.
An order has been obtained
Execution against platforms, indexes, caches, and archives, most of which require a process rather than a letter.
Anonymous publication needs to be addressed
Technical documentation supporting your counsel's process for identifying an anonymous publisher.
Damages need to be substantiated
Quantifying visibility, reach, and the search-position history that supports a harm argument with evidence rather than assertion.
Counsel is weighing whether to file at all
An honest estimate of the visibility litigation will itself generate, so the decision is made with that cost visible.
Process
How the work runs.
Engagement through counsel
Established at the outset, in writing, so the treatment of our work product is settled before any of it exists.
Evidentiary capture
Dated, verifiable documentation of every relevant item, covering content, context, position, and reach, in a form that holds up when challenged.
Footprint mapping
Syndication, caches, archives, screenshots, and re-posts. The original page is usually a fraction of the actual footprint.
Reach and persistence analysis
What can be substantiated about who saw this and for how long, stated with its uncertainty rather than as a single confident number.
Strategic consequence briefing
The digital cost of proceeding, presented to you and your counsel before the decision rather than after.
Post-judgment execution
Turning an order into an actually-changed record, which is a separate project from obtaining it.
Before you engage
Where the limits are.
We do not provide legal advice, and nothing on this site does. We do not assess the merits of a claim, recommend whether to file, or represent you in any proceeding. Those are matters for the attorney you retain.
We are also not a substitute for a digital forensics examiner where formal forensic certification is required. Where a matter needs that, we will say so and work alongside the specialist your counsel appoints.
Engagement through your attorney is strongly preferred. It affects how our work product is treated, and that protection is straightforward to establish at the start and impossible to add later.
Questions we are asked
- Are you lawyers?
- No. RMG Digital Solutions LLC is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. We work at the direction of the licensed counsel you retain. Where you do not have counsel and a matter appears to need it, we will say so.
- Should we sue?
- That is a question for your attorney, and we will not answer it. What we will do is quantify the digital consequences of proceeding, including the visibility litigation itself generates, so the decision is informed.
- Is our communication privileged?
- Communications routed through your attorney are treated differently from those sent to us directly. This is precisely why we prefer engagement through counsel for any matter with a legal dimension, and why it should be arranged at the start.
- Can you find who posted something anonymously?
- We document the technical record that supports your counsel's process for pursuing identification. We do not undertake unauthorized investigative activity, and we decline requests to do so.
- What does this cost?
- The fee is stated in a written proposal before any work begins, scoped to what the assessment finds. How that is arrived at is set out in full on the How We Work page.
Related
Mechanisms that often run alongside this one.
Is this your situation?
One conversation, in confidence, with an honest reading of whether this mechanism is the right one, including when it is not.