Forensic and Litigation Consulting

Navigate Complexity with Speed and Confidence

In today’s high-stakes environment, investigations and disputes are more complex and more consequential than ever. Regulatory scrutiny is intensifying. Financial penalties and exposure is increasing. And reputational risk is no longer a side effect—it’s a central concern.

Leaders need more than legal support. They need a strategic partner who can deliver clarity, speed, and defensible insights across the full lifecycle of an investigation or dispute.

Protiviti’s forensic investigation and litigation solutions are designed to meet that need—combining deep expertise, advanced technology, and AI-powered solutions to help you respond decisively and protect enterprise value.

Whether you're facing fraud – including, but not limited to employee, vendor, or cyber, fraud, alleged misconduct, shareholder litigation, or regulatory investigation, we help you act quickly and confidently.

Investigation Response & Regulatory Support

We provide industry leading technology solutions, including data collection, processing and hosting, digital forensics, and AI-powered analysis, performs document review,, advises on litigation readiness strategies, and supports a collaborative framework, built on clear communication between corporate stakeholders. With our multidisciplinary teams, Protiviti is a trusted, agile partner for organizations under pressure.

Strategic Litigation Support

We provide litigation consulting, and financial analysis to support high-stakes commercial, shareholder, and regulatory disputes. Our multidisciplinary teams deliver defensible insights that align with your legal strategy and business objectives, helping you navigate litigation with clarity and confidence.

Asset Tracing & Recovery

We specialize in tracing hidden, misappropriated assets across complex jurisdictions. Leveraging forensic analytics and global intelligence networks, we support recovery efforts in cross-border disputes, insolvency cases, and fraud investigations with precision and discretion.

Dispute Advisory & Claims Analysis

Our teams can provide independent analysis and advisory services in disputes, and deal-related litigation. We can also support large fact-finding teams performing settlement negotiations and administrative hearings for complex and backlogged claims support operations.

Our Approach: Precision Meets Partnership

We don’t just investigate—we collaborate. Our teams embed with yours to understand the business context, align with legal strategy, and deliver insights that drive resolution. Engagements are led by professionals with deep domain expertise and supported by proprietary accelerators that compress timelines and enhance defensibility. With access to a large, diverse talent pool, Protiviti offers unmatched flexibility and responsiveness.

Technology & Accelerators

AI-powered document review and eDiscovery
Scenario modeling and predictive analytics
Digital forensics and data reconstruction
Regulatory heat maps and risk profiling tools

These tools aren’t just add-ons—they’re embedded in our delivery model to ensure speed, accuracy, and scalability.

AI That Delivers More Than Speed

Our Forensic Investigation & Litigation AI capabilities go beyond automation. We use machine learning to detect patterns, uncover anomalies, and forecast dispute outcomes—giving you strategic foresight in moments that matter. From early case assessment to expert modeling, AI helps us deliver clarity faster and with greater confidence

Quick Response for a Multi-National Internal Investigation

We performed an internal investigation at a multinational energy corporation, which included collecting and processing a large dataset including project management, prioritization, extraction, exception handling and reprocessing using client systems, production, tracking, preservation, and data collection.

PCard Fraud Investigation

Lead and internal investigation at a utility company into alleged asset misappropriation and related party transactions. We performed background and key stakeholder process interviews, quick analysis of procurement card (“PCard”) policies, procedures, banking information (i.e., statements, Level 3 data), and PCard packages (i.e., receipts, approvals, supporting documentation), and collecting, processing, and hosting electronic data.

Government Subpoena Response

We assisted our client and its independent counsel responding to a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena with data collection, processing and hosting services, consulting services, and managed document review. We performed forensic and logical collections of O365 mailboxes, corporate shared drives, laptop/desktop hard drives, mobile devices, and hard copy documents, processing and hosting services. Data collected, processed, and hosted grew to nearly 300 terabytes. We partnered with our parent company Robert Half to staff more than 80 experienced licensed attorneys with foreign language capabilities – which enabled us to meet the client’s deadlines and production requests.

Vendor Fraud Investigation

At the direction of our client’s Chief Legal Officer and Associate General Counsel, we performed an investigation into alleged vendor fraud. Our work included analysis of fraudulent payment requests and bank transfers, interviews of client personnel, and testing of vendor master file and ACH transactions.

Insider Threat Investigations

Our team of professionals was engaged to augment the Financial Crime Investigations function of a large global bank by performing insider threat investigations, including allegations involving insiders engaged in financial crimes, fraud, falsification of bank records, and potential access or data misuse.

Conflict of Interest Investigation

At the direction of outside Counsel and the Board of Directors, we performed an investigation into alleged conflict of interest and inappropriate disbursement of funds to related parties. We reviewed the client's policies and procedures surrounding conflict of interest and internal controls, worked with the client to process map expenditure and cash disbursement cycles, performed corporate intelligence to identify potential internal and external relationships associated with the target of the investigation, conducted interviews with client's personnel, and analyzed cash disbursements made to alleged related parties.

Muddy Footprints – Every Contact Leaves a Trace

How does someone investigating such a security breach wind back the clock and peer into the past? What stories can voiceless clues tell? How can we separate evidence from background noise? What should an IT team do, or not do, to assist an investigation?