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Jeff Parmet and Associates’ team of professionals provides litigation consulting and expert testimony services. We specialize in information technology-related disputes involving system or software failure, software intellectual property, and electronic discovery.

Located in the Washington DC metropolitan area (in Potomac, Maryland), our practice is national in scope, with clients located as far and wide as New York, Boston, Chicago, Miami, Dallas and San Francisco. We have also served clients in Europe and Asia.

We apply considerable years of IT experience to investigating, analyzing and reporting on findings and opinions to cost effectively aid clients involved in complex software disputes and those involving electronically stored information (ESI).

When you need IT professionals with the experience and expertise to uncover even the most technical information – even if the information you need has been deleted and you believe all other avenues have been exhausted – Jeff Parmet and Associates’ team of highly skilled, knowledgeable experts can serve you in a range of capacities, for both consulting and testifying:

• Computer software failure
• Software intellectual property
• Trade secrets
• Patent infringement
• Copyright infringement
• Computer forensics
• Electronic discovery
• Data Analytics

Attorneys and IT managers who require expert assistance resolving software failure disputes, claims of software intellectual property misappropriation, and electronic discovery issues are invited to contact Jeff Parmet and Associates for a private consultation.

Software Failure

Today, no business can compete without reliable information-technology systems. With computer-failure cases on the rise, litigation and ADR activity are running parallel. Whatever the reason for a dispute, failed systems or software projects can cost millions of dollars, irretrievably lost productivity and competitive-advantage time, plus significant disruption to business operations.

We assist counsel in understanding facts and technical concepts. Our computer software experts are often called upon to aid with document discovery and depositions of opposing fact and expert witnesses. Whether the system failure dispute arises from alleged breach of contract, warranty, misrepresentation and/or negligence, we offer both software vendors and their customers consulting services necessary to prove or refute contentions of fact bearing on the technology issues. Our software failure experts typically perform analyses from software defects to system, performance and functional testing, to software engineering and project management standards-based compliance reviews.

When serving as a Software failure expert witnesses we apply our IT-industry expertise, training, and real-world experience to offer opinions regarding liability or damages, issue expert reports and defend our findings in state and federal court – as well as in arbitrations and administrative proceedings.

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Software Intellectual Property Misappropriation

As businesses increasingly seek competitive advantage, reliance on software intellectual property such as copyrights, patents and trade secrets is also increasing – as are software-based intellectual-property disputes. Companies whose intellectual property is compromised often find the damages significant in terms of lost sales and market share.

Our software misappropriation experts assist counsel by comparing the source code of the software trade secrets with the allegedly misappropriated source code. Our analysis of various programming elements provides a strong basis for our findings and opinions on the merits of copyright infringement and trade-secret misappropriation allegations. In software patent disputes, we assist counsel by analyzing and comparing the functionality in allegedly infringing source code against patent claims allegedly infringed.

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Computer Forensics and Electronic Discovery

With incredible amounts of information stored electronically today – in personal computers, mainframes, network logs, web servers, PDAs, cell phones or email servers – electronic discovery is a front-and-center topic in just about every litigation forum, as traditional discovery targets only a fraction of discoverable information. In criminal and civil cases, critical evidence is now routinely discovered on computers. More and more, effective litigation, investigation, prosecution and defense depend on an understanding of information technology and a reliance on computer forensics experts.

Our electronic-discovery experts aid counsel in understanding where and how to find relevant electronic information, how to acquire, preserve and evaluate it. We can act as neutral experts to resolve disputes involving accessibility of electronic information and costs involved in acquiring it. We follow industry-standard protocols for forensically recovering, preserving and handling digitally stored data to assure its reliability and evidentiary value. Our certified computer forensic experts provide testimony as required.

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Data Analytics

Acquired information must be analyzed for content. Content of interest could range from determining what was deleted from a network during a particular time frame to building an electronic-correspondence timeline. When large amounts of data are collected, data analysis is daunting. Sheer volume and/or complexity of data storage present challenges requiring coordinated efforts by IT managers, attorneys and outside experts. With online and computer storage becoming the norm, the use of electronic-data analysis will surge, because the volume of electronically stored information has grown exponentially.

In disputes requiring the acquisition/analysis of myriad types of information, Jeff Parmet and Associates' data analytics provide the tools, experience and technology infrastructure needed to reliably store, organize and analyze data for its probative value and present data compilations in clear and meaningful ways. We work closely with other experts, such as economists and statisticians who require access to the data to perform their own analyses.

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