The Waldrep Company provides digital forensics in Alabama from a lab in Addison, about an hour north of Birmingham. Cell phone extractions, computer examinations, drone evidence, and expert testimony for attorneys statewide: 19 years of experience, casework in federal and state courts.
The Waldrep Company is a digital forensics practice in Addison, Alabama, a Winston County town in north Alabama. The examiner is Eric L. Waldrep: 19 years in digital forensics, 27 years in law enforcement, and casework in federal and state courts. Credentials include the MCFE (Magnet Certified Forensics Examiner), UAS/Drone Forensics Specialist, and service as a U.S. State Department ATA Cyber Mentor.
The casework is the same work a big-city firm handles, done from a place with lower overhead and shorter drives. Alabama attorneys retain the practice for divorce and custody matters, personal injury and distracted driving cases, employment disputes, criminal defense, and business litigation. Daily tools include Cellebrite UFED, GrayKey, and Magnet AXIOM for mobile evidence, plus imaging and analysis platforms for computers.
Every engagement starts the same way: a free consultation to hear the facts, a written fee agreement before any work begins, and chain-of-custody documentation from the moment a device arrives.
Each engagement ends the same way: findings you can read, defend, and hand to opposing counsel.
Desktops, laptops, and external media: deleted files, user activity, USB history, and data theft, documented for discovery and trial.
iOS and Android extractions with Cellebrite UFED, GrayKey, and Magnet AXIOM. Texts, photos, app data, locations, and deleted content.
Deposition and trial testimony from an examiner with casework in federal and state courts.
Was the phone in use at impact? Extraction and timeline analysis for distracted driving and collision cases.
Recovery of deleted material and authentication of messages, photos, and documents when one side claims the evidence is fake.
Written reports, affidavits, and declarations prepared for Rule 26 disclosures and Alabama state-court discovery.
Addison sits in the middle of north Alabama: most of the state is a practical drive, and all of it is overnight shipping.
Birmingham is the largest legal market in the state, and it produces the widest range of digital evidence questions: personal injury and wrongful death suits where a phone may have been in use at impact, divorce and custody files built on text threads and photos, employment cases where a departing employee copied files on the way out, and commercial disputes over what was deleted and when. The Waldrep Company serves Birmingham from Addison, roughly a 90-minute drive. That is close enough for same-day device pickup at a law office, on-site collection at a business that cannot release its hardware, and in-person courtroom testimony in Jefferson County without airfare or hotel invoices. Most matters still begin remotely: send the facts through the contact form, ship the device, and the work starts on arrival. When the case needs the examiner in the room, the room is a drive away.
Huntsville sits a little over an hour east of the lab, and its caseload looks different from Birmingham's. The city's federal courthouse serves the Northern District of Alabama, and its aerospace, defense, and government-contracting economy generates disputes where digital evidence carries the case: trade secret claims against departing engineers, contract fights with large email and file sets, and employment matters at facilities where devices cannot leave the building. On-site collection solves that: the short drive makes it practical to image machines at the client's location and leave everything in place. Drone evidence also shows up in Huntsville more than anywhere else in Alabama, and the practice handles UAS and drone forensics alongside phones and computers. Federal matters bring tighter deadlines and heavier discovery, so reporting is written with Rule 26 in mind from the first page.
The rest of the state works the same way. Montgomery, including matters involving state agencies, is within a half-day round trip for collection or testimony. Mobile is farther, so most Gulf Coast engagements begin with a shipped device and a phone call, with travel reserved for depositions and trial. Tuscaloosa is under two hours out and works much like Birmingham. Between these metros sit dozens of counties where the nearest examiner used to mean a plane ticket; from Addison, most of them are a morning's drive.
The practice also serves Tennessee and Georgia. Nashville, Chattanooga, and northwest Georgia fall within normal driving range, and the rest of both states works by shipped devices and remote intake. Nationwide, the model is the one out-of-state attorneys already use here: a call, a written fee agreement, an overnight shipping label, and travel for testimony when the case gets that far. Scope and cost are on the rates page.
Forensic work can be done from anywhere, and much of this practice's national work arrives by courier. When the case is in Alabama, a local examiner changes three things.
Phones get wiped, laptops get reimaged, and employees resign on Fridays. When the device is in Birmingham or Huntsville, custody can often be taken the same day, before the data you need becomes the data you argue about.
In-person testimony in an Alabama courtroom is a drive, not a flight. No airfare or hotel line items on the invoice, and far less billed travel time around a two-hour hearing.
Hearings move and depositions get continued. A local examiner absorbs a rescheduled court date without a canceled flight, and can meet counsel in person to walk through findings before testimony.
Three figures cover most Alabama engagements. The full schedule, including analysis, reporting, and testimony rates, is on the rates page. The initial consultation is free.
Flat rate per device. Pickup across north Alabama; shipping instructions everywhere else.
Analysis, reporting, and testimony rates are on the rates page.
One flat fee, defined deliverable. A useful first step when the other side filed first.
Travel, shipping, testimony, cost, and how fast preservation can start.
Call (251) 216-1164 or send the case details. You will get a straight answer on whether forensics can help, what it costs, and how fast it can start.
Free initial consultation · Written fee agreement before any work begins · Based in Addison, serving all of Alabama
The Waldrep