Lucas Clair is an Associate Director in the EMEA Compliance, Forensics and Intelligence practice, specialising in investigations and technology. He works with clients during all stages of their projects. Utilising his Linux system engineer and forensic technology background, Lucas’ area of expertise include Digital Forensics, eDiscovery and forensic data analytics as well as complex data protection issues.

In conjunction with the Project Management team, Lucas excels in customer service, consultative project scopes, review strategy and the delivery of best practice services within all areas of the electronic discovery project lifecycle, from data collection, processing and review to production. Lucas’ skills have been key in leveraging technology to assist with investigations, M&A transactions and insolvencies. The projects he worked on include large scale and targeted data collections and the application of machine learning methods to optimize review efficiency.

Lucas’ experience reaches across multiple industry sectors including financial services, hospitality, pharmaceutical, aviation, technology, consulting, legal services and manufacturing.

Some examples of Lucas’ work include:

• Assisted a large bank undertake an internal investigation in connection with the CumEx scandal.
• Supported a global investigation of potential annual financial statements misrepresentation of a multinational business conglomerate including the collection and analysis of over 20TB of laptop, mobile, email, server, cloud and financial data.
• Coordinated the compliance of data processing for all European data in a large investigation of suspected accounting fraud.
• Helped to develop tailored solutions for clients’ needs including the data extraction from a custom email server and the analysis of a point of sales system in the hospitality industry.

Lucas obtained a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Master of Science in Business Informatics from Goethe University Frankfurt. He also has a Relativity Masters Certification and is certified as a Data Protection Officer.