Harriet Ashford

Harriet Ashford

Harriet Ashford

Associate · OSINT & Digital Forensics

Whitfield & Crane LLP

New York

Biography

Harriet Ashford is a Associate in the firm’s OSINT & Digital Forensics group who joined Whitfield & Crane from a Fortune 100 corporate investigations team. She focuses on open-source attribution and digital forensics. recovered funds in matters spanning five continents.

She advises clients across the United States and Canada and works with the firm’s investigators and forensic accountants to move from first report to first freeze as quickly as the facts allow. She is admitted in New York and regularly coordinates matters with local counsel worldwide.

Representative Matters

  • Traced and froze assets layered through 20 entities in 7 countries in a single matter
  • Froze a fraudster’s $79 million real-estate portfolio within weeks of engagement
  • Traced and froze assets layered through 10 entities in 8 countries in a single matter

Education

University of Chicago Law School
B.A., Georgetown University

Bar Admissions

New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

Languages

English
Korean

Recognition

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award