Daniel B. Garrie
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Credentials

A record built outside the panel as much as inside it.

Daniel's arbitration record runs alongside a decade-plus of court-appointed adjudicative work in factually similar matters. The sections below illustrate the technical density and adjudicative discipline he brings to the arbitral seat.

Disputes as neutral — mediator, arbitrator, discovery referee
1,000+
Years of practice
20+
Court appointments
100+
Scholarly citations
800+
Books authored
6
Articles published
300+

Sources: JAMS biography & Google Scholar profile.

Credentials at a glance

  • Arbitrator200+ matters · sole or tri-panelTwo decades · JAMS Neutral · SIAC panel · sole, party-appointed, and chair seats
  • ForumsAAA · LCIA · HKIAC · CPRPlus ICDR international experience and ad-hoc administered proceedings
  • Court-appointed100+ federal & state mattersIncluding In re: Facebook & Powers v. McDonough
  • Scholarship6 books · 300+ articles · 812 citationsEditor-in-Chief, Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare
Arbitrator
Has served as sole arbitrator or on a tri-panel in more than two hundred arbitrations over two decades. Sits in domestic and international commercial disputes; available for sole-arbitrator, party-appointed, and chair appointments. Conducts evidentiary hearings, issues reasoned awards, and manages technical proof — including source-code review, forensic evidence, and expert testimony — with discipline appropriate to the seat.
AAA track record
Stipulated in by the parties as the arbitrator in multiple AAA matters within his areas of specialization. Served as arbitrator in several AAA-ICDR international commercial arbitrations. The stipulation path is established, not theoretical.
Forum experience
Available for AAA matters by party stipulation. Panel arbitrator, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). Distinguished Neutral, CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution. Member, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). Arbitrator, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). Sits as a JAMS Neutral domestically and through JAMS International. Experience in AAA, ICDR, JAMS, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC, CPR, and ad-hoc administered proceedings.
Hearing types
Arbitration · Mediation · Special Master / Discovery Referee · Forensic Neutral · Neutral Evaluator · Hearing Officer · Judge Pro Tem.
Court appointments
Special Master and court-appointed neutral in more than one hundred state and federal matters, including appointments by judges in the Central, Northern, and Eastern Districts of California, the Southern District of New York, the Western District of Pennsylvania, and the Delaware courts, with a focus on eDiscovery special master engagements. Scholarship cited by the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Seventh Circuits. The judicial track record sharpens the arbitration practice — same fact patterns, same evidentiary discipline, applied at the arbitral seat.
Practice
Founder, Law & Forensics LLC — a global cybersecurity, digital-forensics, and e-discovery practice. Former Worldwide Director of Discovery & Information Governance, Charles River Associates. The day-to-day investigative practice keeps Daniel current on the technical fact patterns parties bring into arbitration.
Scholarship
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare. Author or co-author of six books and more than three hundred articles on cybersecurity, digital forensics, and e-discovery. Scholarship cited in over five hundred articles, publications, and judicial opinions, and recognized by Supreme Court Justices.
Teaching
Adjunct faculty, Harvard University and Harvard Extension School (cybersecurity law, cryptocurrency and smart contracts, computer forensics). Adjunct, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (data governance and cybersecurity). Adjunct, Rutgers School of Law (cybersecurity and cyber warfare).
Honors
Fellow, Academy of Court Appointed Neutrals. Distinguished Neutral, Daily Journal (2015) and the Academy of Court Appointed Masters (2015). Distinguished Neutral, CPR Institute. Ponemon Fellow.
Bar admissions
New York · Washington · Honorary admittance, U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Education
J.D., Rutgers School of Law (Editor, Journal of Law & Public Policy). M.A. (with honors), Computer Science, Brandeis University. B.A., Computer Science, Brandeis University.

For a complete biography, publications list, and representative engagements, see Daniel's JAMS profile and his Google Scholar profile.

Selected matters · Where Daniel has sat

Where Daniel has sat.

A representative cross-section of matters drawn from Daniel's record as arbitrator and technical neutral. Where confidentiality applies, parties and case captions are generalized; only public-record matters are named.

  1. JAMS arbitration · Forensic-neutral engagement

    IV Solutions v. Aetna, Inc.

    JAMS Case No. 1200055122

    Created a forensic discovery protocol, executed it, and delivered a report and recommendation to the arbitrator within forty-five days.

    Repositories
    50+
    Files processed
    15M+
    Window
    45 days

  2. Sole arbitrator · Contract dispute

    Bank v. enterprise-software provider

    Confidential commercial arbitration

    Arbitrator in a contract dispute between a bank and a software provider over the scope of an enterprise services agreement. Resolution combined technical, business-management, and legal analysis to issue a reasoned award.

    Sector
    Financial / SaaS
    Role
    Sole arbitrator
    Outcome
    Reasoned award

  3. Arbitrator & mediator · Founder dispute

    Tech-startup partnership and board dispute

    Confidential venture-backed company

    Arbitrator and mediator in a partnership and board-member dispute at a technology startup, drawing on Daniel's two decades of operating experience inside venture-backed companies.

    Subject
    Equity / control
    Parties
    Founders & board
    Role
    Arbitrator

  4. Sole arbitrator · Cyber liability

    Client v. law firm — data-breach arbitration

    Confidential professional-services dispute

    Arbitrator in a data-breach dispute in which a client sued its law firm following a targeted cyberattack that resulted in a leak of client data. Required forensic root-cause analysis and a standard-of-care assessment.

    Theory
    Cyber liability
    Sector
    Professional services
    Role
    Sole arbitrator

  5. Arbitrator · Trade-secret / source-code

    Software code-theft arbitration

    Confidential — multiple matters

    Arbitrator in matters involving alleged unauthorized copying of source code. Direct review of code differences and version-control history produced focused issue-identification and accelerated resolution.

    Subject
    Source code
    Theory
    Trade secret
    Role
    Arbitrator

  6. Sole arbitrator · Healthcare contract

    Medical-billing v. medical-group arbitration

    Confidential healthcare commercial dispute

    Arbitrator in a contractual dispute between a medical-billing company and a medical group, addressing reimbursement, scope-of-services, and stop-loss coverage. Resolution required deep familiarity with healthcare information systems.

    Sector
    Healthcare
    Subject
    Contract
    Role
    Sole arbitrator

Selected court appointments

Court appointments.

  • In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation — N.D. Cal. — appointed Special Master by Hon. Vince Chhabria to oversee discovery in one of the largest consumer-privacy class actions in U.S. history.

  • Powers v. McDonough — C.D. Cal. — appointed by Hon. David O. Carter as Special Master to resolve discovery disputes in the federal veterans-benefits litigation.

  • Federal homelessness monitorship — C.D. Cal. — court-appointed monitor directed by Hon. David O. Carter to gather, review, and verify the City of Los Angeles's homelessness data.

  • eDiscovery Special Master — U.S.D.C., Western District of Pennsylvania — multiple class actions involving discrimination and wage-and-hour claims.

  • Discovery Referee — Los Angeles County Superior Court — dozens of disputes involving trade secrets, source code, and complex e-discovery.

Selected publications

Scholarship.

A representative selection. Daniel's complete publications list is available on request.

Articles

  • Digital Forensic Evidence in the Courtroom: Understanding Content and Quality. Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, Vol. 12 (2014).
  • So You're Telling Me There's a Chance: How the Articles on State Responsibility Could Empower Corporate Responses to State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks (with Shane Reeves). Harvard National Security Journal (2016).
  • Hiding the Inaccessible Truth: Amending the Federal Rules to Accommodate Electronic Discovery (with M.J. Armstrong & B. Burdett). Review of Litigation, Vol. 25 (2006).
  • E-Discovery in Criminal Cases: A Need for Specific Rules (with D.K. Gelb). Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 43 (2009).
  • Voice over Internet Protocol and the Wiretap Act: Is Your Conversation Protected? (with M.J. Armstrong & D.P. Harris). Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 29 (2005).
  • Demystifying Clickstream Data: A European and U.S. Perspective (with R. Wong). Emory International Law Review, Vol. 20 (2006).
  • Coddling Spies: Why the Law Doesn't Adequately Address Computer Spyware (with A.F. Blakley & M.J. Armstrong). Duke Law & Technology Review (2005).

Books

  • Cybersecurity & the Courthouse: Safeguarding the Judicial Process. Wolters Kluwer (2019).
  • Plugged In: Guidebook to Software and the Law (with Hon. Francis Allegra). Thomson Reuters (4th ed. 2020).
  • Law Firm Cybersecurity (with Bill Spernow). American Bar Association (2017).
  • Cyberwarfare: Understanding the Law, Policy, and Technology. Thomson Reuters Legal Works (2016).
  • Understanding Software, the Internet, Mobile Computing, and the Cloud: A Guide for Judges (with Hon. Gail Andler, Ret.). Federal Judicial Center (2015).
  • Dispute Resolution and E-Discovery (with Yoav Griver, ed.). Thomson Reuters (2013).

Counsel comments

What counsel and judges say.

  1. Magistrate Judge · Seventh Circuit eDiscovery Pilot Program

    The quality of your instruction reflected the depth of both your technical expertise in electronic discovery and your facilitative expertise as a mediator.

  2. Chief Privacy Officer & Partner · Global Law Firm

    Mr. Garrie is one of the few people who understand both the technical and legal issues that arise in disputes. His knowledge of each is at an expert level. This allows for more nuanced mediation and the higher likelihood of finding a compromise.

  3. Bankruptcy Law Attorney · After settlement

    I can't tell you enough how grateful I am that we picked you as our mediator and how lucky we are to have settled all things now being considered.

  4. Federal Judge · Special Master report

    His report was a model of clarity — even to a lay person — and demonstrated how extremely conscientious and thorough he had been. The report was directly responsible for the prompt settlement not only of the case immediately before me, but also seven other disputes between the parties.

Verbatim from Daniel's JAMS profile. Names withheld per JAMS convention.

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