Speaker, «Top 2017 Investigation and Drafting Issues in Cases
Involving Electronic Evidence», 10th National Symposium on Tech Crime and Electronic Evidence (January 27, 2017)
This education presentation provides an overview of the issues facing counsel when dealing with legal matters
involving electronic evidence.
Indeed, in an age when any court case can
involve electronic evidence, every Californian attorney who steps foot in a courtroom has a basic duty of competence with regard to e-discovery.
I took those ideas and asked the question, «What would happen if a law firm was the subject of a lawsuit that
involved electronic evidence?»
Not exact matches
Yet by now, officials said, intelligence analysts would also have expected to have culled from
electronic intercepts of overseas conversations at least some secondary
evidence that the Russians might be
involved — suspicious telephone or email conversations, suggestive messages, movements of Russian agents — something.
Once upon a time, news that spooks were routinely monitoring our
electronic communications, detaining those
involved in reporting that fact and forcing newspapers to destroy their
evidence of it would have brought Mr Clegg out in a rash.
The fraud
involved electronic files deliberately planted in a fax machine in order to mislead investigators, among other
evidence that required long and expensive forensic investigation.
It's safe to say
electronic evidence — text messages, digital photos, cloud storage, and the internet of things — will be
involved in every new case you have.
Instead, deciding how to preserve
electronic evidence is a balancing exercise that
involves comparing the cost of different methodologies with the importance of the
evidence to be preserved.
The mutability of
electronic evidence is a compelling reason for counsel to exercise extreme caution when dealing with a case that
involves electronic discovery.
By introducing policies and
involving experts before or at the onset of litigation, lawyers are helping themselves and their clients to ease the burden of managing
electronic evidence.
He was recently
involved in a case in which Francis had to sanction the defense for failing to preserve
electronic evidence, something Batson says is actually very hard to prove.
In addition to liability, gathering
evidence supporting a truck accident claim
involves examining the specifics of the accident, driver logs,
electronic black boxes, and other complex pieces of
evidence and testimony.
Today, more than 95 % of all information is
electronic and further research indicates that almost all cases today will
involve some sort or
electronic evidence.
His teaching topics generally
involve family law,
evidence (including
electronic, social media and other computer related
evidence) and trial practice and many are noted below.
The idea is to get their arms around the litigation data as early as possible so the team can map out the size, scope and scale of the
electronic evidence involved in a new matter.
Electronic discovery (also known as e-discovery, e discovery, or eDiscovery) is a procedure by which parties involved in a legal case preserve, collect, review, and exchange information in electronic formats for the purpose of using it as evidence in
Electronic discovery (also known as e-discovery, e discovery, or eDiscovery) is a procedure by which parties
involved in a legal case preserve, collect, review, and exchange information in
electronic formats for the purpose of using it as evidence in
electronic formats for the purpose of using it as
evidence in the case.
Both matters
involve the alleged unlawful misappropriation and dissemination of the company's confidential and proprietary trade secrets and other information by former members of the company, unfair competition, breach of fiduciary duties, breach of contract and spoliation of
electronic evidence.