Data Recovery Expert Needed

Do you know any experts on data recovery on a MacBook Pro?
Two catastrophic things happened:
- A user's FileVault encrypted .spareimage completely went away. I believe that there is some kind of major drive failure corruption that occurred.
- The user's Mobile Account was manually sync'd every day before she would go home. But unfortunately everything except for her /Library folder was getting sync'd with the Snow Leopard Server (also a bizarre misfortune).
Thus, she has lost all of her Sent mail and other local email folders that only resided on her laptop.
I can't even boot into the laptop anymore. We tried Firewire initially which showed an empty user folder...no .sparseimage to speak of in the /Users/username folder.
So I'm looking for a data recovery specialist that may be able to locate and resurrect the missing .sparseimage FileVault file. It's a longshot but would be worth it if successful.
Thanks!

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