Dysart Taylor in Kansas City, Missouri, and Nick Rauch of Larson • King LLP in Minnesota and North Dakota, as they host a conversation with Chris Torrens, vice president, business development at SEA, Ltd., a multi-disciplined forensic engineering, fire investigation and visualization services company specializing in failure analysis. S-E-A is USLAW’s official technical forensic engineering and legal visualization services partner. Listen in as Chris shares how his youth football coach introduced him to S-E-A more than 26 years ago, how S-E-A has grown to employ 300 staff members, including 200 technical staff members across 15 engineering disciplines, and how S-E-A’s impact spans insurance, retail, transportation, products, and engineering industries, and more. The conversation also touches on corporate culture, Trampled by Turtles, and teenage drivers. Tune in to this wide-ranging and entertaining conversation.
USLAW Live is supported by USLAW corporate partners S-E-A, American Legal Records, Arcadia Settlements Group, Immersion Legal Jury, Marshall Investigative Group and MDD Forensic Accountants
3:00 Chris shares how USLAW and S-E-A connected more than 20 years ago.
3:35 About S-E-A - 300 employees, including 200 technical staff members and 15 engineering disciplines.
4:10 How his youth football coach, who also was the founder of S-E-A, led him to S-E-A 26 years ago and counting. Also, you never know who you’re going to meet and what impact they will have on you.
6:10 Creating deeper relationships with clients and community; how to do it right; why community matters; listening to clients, diversifying what an engineer looks like coming out of college.
9:03 The Why statement - the entire reason S-E-A has been with USLAW for 20+ years.
10:40 S-E-A's digital forensic expertise expansion - how to extract, store, protect, and use the data to better build cases and tell stories.
12:20 Industry snapshot and digital footprint data – whose doing what well with digital information
14:30 What keeps Chris up at night?
16:04 Is S-E-A using AI? What are the downsides?
The University of Kentucky, Dave Matthews Band, Trampled by Turtles, Avett Brothers, teen drivers and more.
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