What must be proved?
Duty, causation, knowledge, control, reasonableness, compliance and liability.
The legal-technical advantage
Two disciplines.
One expert.
Leo Herps started by writing code as a child. Across 35+ years, he progressed through systems, cybersecurity and digital forensics to ultimately building telecommunications networks from scratch. Then add the law degree.
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01 / The gap
Complex cases break down
between disciplines.
The decisive issue is often neither purely legal nor purely technical. It lives at the handoff between the two.
+ONE MIND
BOTH LANGUAGES
BOTH LANGUAGES
What actually happened?
Code, logs, packets, protocols, routing, architecture, configurations and failure modes.
Leo works across the divide—testing the system at technical depth while recognizing which facts will matter to counsel, a tribunal, an arbitral panel or a court.
02 / The progression
Not learned for a case.
Built over a lifetime.
Writing code
Programming from childhood and building websites during the early commercial internet.
Systems & security
Server software, hosting, administration, intrusion investigation, forensic reconstruction and recovery.
Telecom networks
Carrier platforms, voice and messaging networks, routing, numbering, interconnection and regulated operations.
A law degree
At Maastricht University, Leo deliberately brought his two passions together in a thesis on intellectual property and open-source software—then applied that legal discipline to evidence, regulation, contracts, causation and liability.
03 / What counsel gains
Technical depth.
Courtroom relevance.
The value is not simply knowing more technology. It is knowing where to look, what to test and how to turn the result into a defensible opinion.
Faster issue identification
Recognize early which technical questions can materially change the legal analysis.
Evidence that survives scrutiny
Connect conclusions to the underlying code, logs, traffic, configurations, standards and operational record.
Challenge assumptions
Test whether an opposing narrative is technically possible—not merely well expressed.
Clear communication
Translate complexity without flattening it, so decision-makers can understand the facts that matter.
04 / Working style
Clarity over
comfort.
Leo’s Dutch background informs a straightforward professional approach: precise analysis, candid advice and conclusions stated without unnecessary ambiguity.
He identifies the technically and legally decisive issues, tests assumptions and communicates his conclusions plainly—even when the answer is inconvenient. For counsel and clients, that means fewer surprises, a more focused case strategy and testimony that is clear, independent and defensible.
05 / The difference
“I do not have to choose between understanding the technology and understanding why it matters legally. I have spent my career doing both.”
That is the AVB Veritas advantage: a deeply technical builder and operator who can work within the discipline of legal evidence.