Law & Forensics x AnChain.AI: Solving High-Stakes Billion $ Crypto Legal Investigations

March 10, 2026

Law and Forensics (HQ in Bellevue, WA) is a premier digital forensics and e-discovery firm serving Am Law 100 law firms, global financial institutions, and independent legal counsel across complex litigation, internal investigations, and board-level inquiries. Founded by Daniel Garrie, Esq., a nationally recognized authority in digital forensics and cyber law, the firm has built its reputation on resolving the most technically demanding and legally consequential financial matters in the industry.

Law and Forensics serves clients across three primary sectors: Am Law 100 and boutique law firms requiring expert forensic support for litigation and arbitration; banks and financial institutions conducting internal compliance and fraud investigations; and independent legal counsel engaged in board investigations and regulatory matters. Across all of these engagements, digital tracing of blockchain transactions has become a core and growing need.

Law and Forensics further strengthens its client offering through a distinguished panel of expert witnesses, including David Cass, Roland Cloutier, Gary Corn, Jeremy Desor, Morgan B. Ward Doran, Daniel Garrie, Aristedes Mahairas, George Pierce, and J-Michael Roberts. These professionals are recognized in their respective fields, providing the critical insights and authoritative testimony necessary for high-stakes legal disputes.

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The Challenge

As blockchain-enabled transactions became central to financial crime, fraud, and asset concealment, Law and Forensics faced a critical gap in its investigative toolkit. The firm needed a blockchain intelligence platform capable of keeping pace with the complexity, speed, and evidentiary standards demanded by high-stakes legal proceedings.

Specifically, the firm encountered the following obstacles:

Investigations spanning multiple blockchains, wallets, and protocols required extensive manual effort and took days or weeks to complete, slowing down time-sensitive matters.
The existing vendor provided limited attribution depth and lacked the agentic AI capabilities required to autonomously follow complex, multi-hop transaction paths through mixers, chain-hopping schemes, and layered obfuscation techniques.
Board-level and internal investigations required court-ready, defensible outputs with full chain-of-custody documentation — a standard that legacy tools could not reliably meet.
Asset recovery and fraud litigation demanded real-time tracing across DeFi protocols and exchange flows, where incumbent platforms consistently fell short.

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The Solution

After evaluating the available options in the blockchain intelligence market, Law and Forensics selected AnChain.AI’s CISO and SCREEN platforms as the foundation of its blockchain forensics practice. The decision was driven by AnChain.AI’s differentiated agentic AI architecture and the platform’s ability to deliver results that competitors could not.

AnChain.AI CISO (Compliance Investigation & Security Operation) platform

AnChain.AI SCREEN (Smart Contract Risk Evaluation) platform

The deployment covers the following capabilities:

Agentic AI Investigation Engine: AnChain.AI’s proprietary AI engine autonomously traces multi-hop transaction paths in real time, identifying obfuscation techniques including mixers, chain-hopping, peel chains, and layering schemes across more than 30 blockchains — without requiring manual analyst intervention at each step.
On-Chain Attribution: The platform delivers 98.7% on-chain address attribution accuracy, identifying wallet owners, exchanges, darknet markets, sanctioned entities, and other counterparties with a depth and precision that significantly outperforms incumbent tools.
Board-Grade Reporting: Every investigation generates exportable, citation-ready reports with full chain-of-custody documentation, meeting the evidentiary standards required for board presentations, regulatory submissions, and court proceedings.
Integrated AML and Sanctions Screening: SCREEN enables simultaneous anti-money laundering and sanctions screening, allowing Law and Forensics to run compliance and forensic workflows in a single platform rather than across multiple disconnected tools.
MCP Server Integration: AnChain.AI’s Model Context Protocol server integration allows Law and Forensics analysts to query the platform programmatically, enabling seamless incorporation into bespoke investigation workflows and legal technology stacks. Access for free here.

Results and Impact

Since deploying AnChain.AI, Law and Forensics has investigated over $1 billion in transacted digital assets across engagements spanning law firms, banking institutions, and independent counsel mandates. The results have been consistent: faster investigations, higher-quality outputs, and successful resolution of cases that other platforms could not crack.

3x Faster Investigation Turnaround:

AnChain.AI’s agentic AI reduces investigation timelines by an average of three times compared to prior tools, cutting what previously took weeks down to days and enabling Law and Forensics to meet the urgent deadlines that litigation and board matters demand.

Billion dollar in Digital Assets Traced and Investigated:

Across all client engagements to date, Law and Forensics has used AnChain.AI to trace and investigate more than $1.5 billion in digital asset transactions, spanning cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and DeFi protocols.

Court-Ready Outputs Accepted Without Supplemental Testimony:

Reports generated by AnChain.AI have been accepted in legal and regulatory proceedings without the need for supplemental expert testimony explaining the methodology, reducing cost and time for clients.

Trusted Across All Three Client Sectors:

The platform is now embedded in Law and Forensics’s workflows for law firm litigation support, banking internal investigations, and independent counsel board inquiries — making it the single blockchain intelligence solution across the firm’s full client base.

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Customer Endorsement

“AnChain.AI’s blockchain investigations surface transaction paths and attribution 3× faster and with greater precision than competing tools, delivering indispensable intelligence for our highest-stakes legal matters.”

— Daniel Garrie, Founder & CEO, Law and Forensics

Why AnChain.AI Over Competitors

Daniel Garrie and his team evaluated other blockchain intelligence vendors before selecting AnChain.AI. The decision came down to three factors that competitors could not match.

Agentic AI vs. Manual Analysis

Other incumbent platforms require analysts to manually follow transaction paths step by step. AnChain.AI’s agentic AI engine operates autonomously, traversing complex multi-hop flows across chains, through mixers, and across DeFi protocols without requiring analyst input at each node. This is not an incremental improvement — it is a fundamentally different approach that produces results in hours rather than days.

Attribution Depth and Accuracy

AnChain.AI’s on-chain attribution accuracy of 98.7% is significantly higher than the approximately 70% accuracy rate observed from incumbent platforms in Law and Forensics’s own engagements. In investigations where competitor tools returned inconclusive or incomplete attribution, AnChain.AI identified the relevant entities and counterparties with the specificity required for legal action.

Legal-Grade Outputs

The platform generates structured, citation-ready reports designed for use in board rooms and courtrooms. Competitor tools require significant post-processing and supplemental documentation to produce outputs that meet legal evidentiary standards. AnChain.AI delivers those outputs natively, saving Law and Forensics significant time and cost on every engagement.

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About AnChain.AI

AnChain.AI is an AI-powered blockchain analytics and AML compliance company. Its award winning platforms are trusted by law firms, law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and digital asset businesses worldwide to investigate blockchain transactions, screen for sanctions and AML risk, and generate court-ready forensic reports. AnChain.AI’s agentic AI engine and MCP server integration represent the next generation of blockchain intelligence, enabling investigation workflows that are faster, more accurate, and more defensible than any competing solution on the market.

Schedule a call today with our experts: https://www.anchain.ai/demo

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