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Secure your spot, get the book, and learn how to build cases that hold up, including finding trap-loaded evidence that can wreck your analysis and investigation. 

Stop chasing tools. Start closing cases.

Use investigative logic to turn forensic evidence into defensible casework.

Here’s how the PSBK Casework Course changes how you work.

The Problem

Most investigators rely on tools and talent but without a system, cases are weak.

  • Reports lack consistency.

  • Evidence gets lost in noise.

  • Misconfigured timestamps that destroy timelines.

  • Overbroad warrants that get evidence suppressed.

  • Shared IP logins that mislead attribution.

The problem isn’t your skill. It’s the absence of a system.

The Solution

The PSBK Casework System is built on the FACT Attribution Framework™:

  • Forensic Compliance: preserve admissibility, follow lawful authority.

  • Analyze Evidence: digital + physical, context-driven.

  • Correlate & Sequence: build timelines, relationships, and attribution logic.

  • Testify & Transfer Findings: communicate results that survive cross-exam.

You’ll apply FACT to a live scenario, building a full case binder that includes warrants, logs, timelines, reports, and testimony-ready findings.

The Transformation

Imagine walking away not with theory, but with a completed DFIR case binder:

  • Corrected warrants that don’t get tossed.

  • Chain of custody and acquisition logs that hold up in court.

  • A timeline that resolves conflicting artifacts.

  • A method to spot fragile points in your own cases.

  • Confidence your work can survive suppression hearings and cross-exam.

  • An attribution statement that neutralizes the “anyone could’ve used it” defense.

That’s what you’ll have in your hands by the end of this one-day course a system that works.

Meet Your Instructor: Brett Shavers

Brett Shavers has spent over 30 years in investigations, the courtroom, and the classroom. His work has shaped how investigators, incident responders, and legal teams approach defensible casework.

  • Creator of Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard®, a methodology taught worldwide.

  • Author of multiple DF/IR books issued at federal training centers, universities, and agencies.

  • Instructor for thousands of investigators across law enforcement, military, corporate, and academic settings.

  • Courtroom experience as an expert witness, rebuttal witness, special master, advisor, juror, bailiff, and more.

Brett has personally served in over 70% of the active roles inside a courtroom, from juror to expert witness, from bailiff to special master.

That means he doesn’t just teach casework. He’s defended it under cross-examination, seen how cases collapse, and built a system designed so yours won’t.

Learn the PSBK Casework System from Brett

Tools don’t close cases.

Certifications don’t close cases.

Systems close cases.

The PSBK Casework System gives you the structure, the flow, and the confidence to turn evidence into outcomes, every time.

Join the One-Day Casework Intensive

What You’ll Get with Your Enrollment

📘 Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard: DF/IR Investigative Strategies (Vol. 3, Standard Edition)

  • Complimentary, early release hardcover copy (not available retail), included free with your seat

  • Step-by-step case scenario

  • Legal insights and evidentiary strategy

  • Preview of the companion narrative (Vol. 4)

🎓 Full Training Package

  • 7-hour live online training + interactive Q&A with Brett Shavers

  • Casework workbook + downloadable forms

  • 30-day replay access

  • Certificate of Completion

✨ Bonus: You’ll be among the first to get PSBK Vol. 3 – Standard Edition before public release.

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What You’ll Learn in the PSBK Casework Course

This isn’t a theory lecture. It’s a live, interactive training where you’ll practice tactical decision-making, connect evidence into a coherent story, and build defensible casework that holds up under scrutiny.

During the day, we’ll cover:

  • The Casework Mindset – how to think like both a DFIR professional and a legal professional when making investigative decisions.

  • Evidence in Context – tying artifacts together into narratives that point to people, not just events.

  • Attribution Thinking – proving who did something, not just what happened. Tying the act to the actor.

  • Building the Case File – turning raw data into clear, defensible reports that withstand cross-examination.

  • Tactical Application – applying the PSBK Casework System to real scenarios, making live decisions, and discussing specific investigative techniques that demonstrate broader investigative strategies.

  • From Casework to Courtroom – what attorneys, judges, and juries look for and how to present cases that hold in any setting: criminal, corporate, civil, or eDiscovery.

By the end of the day, you’ll not only know the system; you’ll have practiced it live, applied investigative strategies, and seen how it scales across domains.

Tactical Forensics in Action

This isn’t a paperwork course. It’s a live, investigative lab.

During the PSBK Casework Course, you’ll walk through the same digital forensic techniques used to prove attribution and intent in real cases. You’ll see how individual artifacts become evidence and how evidence becomes a defensible case.

We’ll examine, demonstrate, and connect live forensic data points, including:

  • Linking LNK files, shellbags, and user activity to specific devices and accounts.

  • Identifying persistence mechanisms, execution traces, and data remnants that show what really happened.

  • Tracing timeline artifacts across systems to validate or refute statements.

  • Correlating network logs, registry entries, and file metadata into a unified evidence story.

  • Demonstrating how tactical findings transition directly into affidavit language and testimony.

You’ll see how artifacts plug into the system that makes your work defensible.
This is where technical skill meets investigative strategy.

One System.

Multiple Applications.

The PSBK Casework System began in criminal forensics, but its structure applies anywhere evidence, decisions, and outcomes must be defensible:

  • Criminal Investigations → affidavits, reports, testimony that survive cross-examination.

  • Incident Response → timelines, attribution, and reporting regulators and boards trust.

  • eDiscovery & Civil Litigation → defensible collections, privilege boundaries, and reporting.

  • Corporate / HR Investigations → connect evidence to actions with clarity and neutrality.

Different domains. Same system. Same defensibility.

Why I Built the PSBK Casework System

I didn’t design this system in theory. I built it in the stress of real investigations (meaning I suffered through investigative failures, cross examinations, defending my work, ideas, theories, and methods) and defended it in courtrooms where case outcomes mattered.

I’ve been an expert witness, a rebuttal witness, a fact witness, a juror, a bailiff, a victim, a defendant, and a court-appointed special master. I’ve seen how cases are attacked, how they collapse, and what judges and juries actually focus on.

The PSBK Casework System is the result: a process that makes your work defensible from every angle, regardless if your work is a criminal or civil legal case, an eDiscovery matter, a corporate matter, or an IR event that is at risk of litigation.

Master Casework Across Civil, Criminal, Corporate, and IR cases.

What Students Say About PSBK Training

These quotes are from graduates of the PSBK Mindset course. The Casework System is built with the same clarity, defensibility, and practical application.

Jason J.

"Reinforcing a holistic investigative approach to digital forensics."

Chad H.

"Changing the way I think when looking at a case."

Jac S.

"Has already provided benefits in my day job."

Early Bird Registration – $399 (Reg. $599)

Seats are capped, and early-release books are limited.

Early Bird pricing ends Feb 5, 2026 or when the course is full.

Join the One-Day Casework Intensive”

I’ve defended this system under cross-examination.

Then I built it so you won’t have to.”

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The Books

A limited number of books will be available for this early release and CASEWORK course.

The Course

Limited seats to match the limited books. Once full, that's it.

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