Douglas Anderson

Biography

Douglas Anderson is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Atlanta, where he co-leads its Forensic Technology Services practice and is a member of the Global Executive Committee. He has extensive experience in developing and implementing litigation technology solutions. His primary areas of concentration are electronic discovery, computer forensics and litigation readiness. Most recently, he was engaged by a major pharmaceutical manufacturer involved in acquiring substantial portions of another firm. In this role, he led a team of professionals from both A&M and the client firm charged with identifying and transferring electronic and paper documents obtained as a result of the acquisition. The project’s complexity was compounded by the fact that many of the documents were under either litigation hold or discovery orders in five separate civil litigation proceedings. Mr. Anderson designed and implemented a program to successfully accomplish the identification, acquisition, review, management and subsequent preservation and integration of approximately 16 million documents obtained as a result of the purchase.He has worked with clients across various industries, including the financial, energy, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and government sectors. Before joining A&M, Mr. Anderson was a principal with Grant Thornton in Miami, most recently serving as the National Partner in Charge of its forensic technology services practice, and responsible for the growth, operation and management of the practice. There, he was retained by a syndicate of 11 global reinsurance firms to provide e-discovery consulting, advisory, collection, management and hosting services in support of a $950 million dollar litigation.He led a team of professionals who identified, collected and processed more than 3.2 million individual electronic documents from 14 individual locations throughout the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, he crafted and managed a review strategy for a review team of 23 attorneys from three different law firms and reviewers located in three different U.S. states and two foreign countries. Mr. Anderson earned a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Rollins College and an MBA from Colorado Technical University. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, as well as the Association of Former AFOSI Special Agents.

Research Interest

Electronic discovery, Computer Forensics and Litigation Readiness.