Whether the case involves a forged physical document or electronic file, attempting to hide assets or income, tax fraud, fraudulent conveyances, bribery, corruption, abuse of official public power or office for private gain, or more convoluted or obscurficated fraudulent schemes, no lawyer can advocate what he or she cannot first discover. The first and most important step to any fraud case is the initial investigation and discovery. Unless you know where to look and how to go about looking for evidence, the defendant in a fraud case may end up with nothing more than an entertaining game of cat and mouse.