Legal & Forensic
Specialist technical support for disputes, investigations and regulated decisions
Virticus supports litigation, investigation and in-house legal teams with evidence analysis, fraud and AML expertise, forensic data analysis, transaction reconstruction, loss modelling, AI and automation, and independent technical review. We use the right combination of specialist judgement, data analysis and technology for each matter. Every material finding is traceable to its source and reviewed before delivery, so the work is evidence prepared for regulatory, audit or litigation scrutiny. Fixed fee, agreed before we start.
From document to finding
TraceableMaterial received
Documents classified
Chronology built
Contradictions flagged
Reviewed by a person
Every finding links to the document it rests on, and a person checks it before it leaves us. What the material cannot settle is reported as open.
The shift
The evidence became data
Disputes and investigations now turn on transaction records, system logs, detection rules, models and automated decisions as much as on correspondence. The question a legal team needs answered is often a technical one.
The gap
The technical question arrives without the specialist
Whether a fraud control was adequate, how money actually moved, what a model decided and why, what the loss really is: each needs fraud, data or financial expertise that a legal team rarely has in-house, and that the other side may well have.
The standard
Every finding points to where it came from
Each date, figure and conclusion we report cites the document, record or row it rests on, and is reviewed before it reaches you. What the material cannot settle is reported as open, never filled in.
What we do
The technical, forensic and financial questions a matter turns on
We use AI where it improves the work, but no finding is accepted merely because an AI system produced it. Every one is checked against the material it rests on.
Investigations and evidence analysis
Chronologies built from the documents themselves, contradictions across accounts and records, communications analysis, missing records and evidential patterns, and disclosure support: classification against the issues, duplicates, and gaps in a period that should be complete.
Fraud, AML and financial-crime expertise
Analysis of fraud and AML rules and transaction monitoring, reconstruction of how a fraud was carried out, the control failures that let it through, and the regulatory evidence a firm held or should have held.
Forensic data and financial analysis
Transaction reconstruction from bank records, ledgers and payment data, loss modelling with each assumption stated and its effect shown, accounting records and customer data examined, and anomaly analysis across data too large to read.
AI, models and automated decisions
Technical examination of the AI systems, models, rules and automated decisions at issue in a matter: what they did, on what inputs, and whether the outputs can be reproduced and explained.
Technical support for legal teams
Testing disputed calculations, examining the other side’s technical evidence, preparing analytical exhibits, and explaining complex systems in plain language to the people who have to decide.
Legal AI and automation
Building or assessing legal workflows, document-analysis systems and investigation tools where a team wants the work automated, and testing the ones it relies on for false citations, confidentiality leaks, traceability and human oversight.
What every piece of work carries
Traceable to source, and reviewed before it leaves us
Analysis that cannot be traced back to the material is an opinion with extra steps. Everything below comes with the findings, in a form your team can check without us.
A source for every finding
The document, page, message or row each statement rests on, so any line can be checked in seconds.
What could not be determined
Reported as open, with what would settle it. A gap in the record is never read as nothing having happened.
The method, written down
How the material was searched, classified and tested, so the work can be repeated and explained.
Human review, recorded
Which findings were checked, against what, and what changed as a result.
Assumptions, with their effect
In loss and damages work, each assumption stated and the figure shown without it.
Confidentiality kept
Material handled only in the environment agreed for the matter, and nothing sent to a tool the matter has not approved.
How engagements are shaped
Start with one question on one matter
Most matters have one question that decides where the effort should go: when something happened, what is missing, or what the loss is. The first engagement answers that one.
Start here
Matter review
Fixed fee and timetable agreed before we start, after a twenty-minute call.
- One matter, one question: a chronology, a gap, a figure
- Scope set against the material that exists
- Written findings, each cited to its source
- What the material cannot answer, named
Then
Matter support
Scoped on the matter, alongside your legal team
- Evidence, disclosure and damages work as the matter moves
- Updated as new material arrives
- The method recorded, so the work can be repeated
- Your team keeps the analysis and its sources
Separately
Systems and tools
For an AI system, model or legal tool, examined or built
- A system at issue in a matter, examined and explained
- A legal AI tool tested on your own matters before it is relied on
- Or a workflow built where you want the work automated
- A written result, with what failed named
What we are not
Technical and analytical support, not legal representation
Virticus provides technical and analytical support, not regulated legal representation. We are not a law firm, we do not carry out reserved legal activities, and we do not advise on the law. On a contentious matter we work alongside, or on the instruction of, your legal advisers, and the conduct of the matter and every conclusion of law stay with them.
Whether evidence is admitted, and what weight it carries, is for the court, tribunal or regulator. What we can do is make sure every finding shows where it came from and what it could not settle.
Where this work meets the rest of what we do: the fraud and AML rules behind many investigations are Financial Crime work, and the pipelines that run a firm’s other automated decisions are AI & Automation.
Starting
Tell us about the matter, not the method
A short call is enough to say whether a first review would help and what it would cost. Every enquiry is treated in confidence, and nothing about a matter is needed to start that conversation beyond what it concerns.