by Steve Burgess | Jul 7, 2026 | Attorneys, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Evidence Preservation, Expert Witness Insights, Litigation Support, Technology & Law
Your client didn’t leak anything on purpose. That’s usually how it goes. The confidential settlement number, the internal complaint about a coworker, the photo that was supposed to prove they were out of town — all of it can arrive at opposing...
by Steve Burgess | Jun 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess Somewhere along the way, text messages became some of the most important evidence in litigation that nobody quite knows how to handle properly. A few years ago, that would have been an email thread, such as in the Case of the Computer...
by Steve Burgess | Jun 24, 2026 | Attorneys
Digital Evidence 101: What Every Attorney Should Know Before Discovery Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess I’ve sat across the table – or more recently, the Zoom – from a great many attorneys over the past forty years, and I’ve noticed a pattern....
by Steve Burgess | Jun 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess Every so often I’ll sit across the Zoom from an attorney—or from a pro se litigant—who wants everything. Every text message the opposing party has ever sent. Every photo on their phone. Every search query. Every deleted file. Every app....
by Steve Burgess | Jun 15, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones
Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess Smartphones are the single richest source of digital evidence in most litigation today. Text messages, call logs, photos, location history, app data, deleted files — it’s all there, sitting in a device that fits in a shirt pocket....