by Steve Burgess | Jul 30, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Litigation Support, Technology & Law
When a client or opposing party says “he deleted everything,” attorneys often hear a dead end. I hear the opposite and you probably should as well. In digital forensics, deletion is rarely the end of the story. In fact, it may be the beginning of a better...
by Steve Burgess | Jul 21, 2026 | Attorneuys, Attorneys, Cell phones, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Expert Witness Insights, Forensic stories, Litigation Support, Technology & Law, Uncategorized
A fitness tracker once told me the exact moment its wearer stopped moving. Not slowed down. Stopped. The device wasn’t built to establish a time of death. It was builtto count steps and nag its owner about standing up more often. But it kept a continuous record,...
by Steve Burgess | Jul 14, 2026 | AI, Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Litigation Support, Technology & Law
Twenty years ago, a forensic report about a hard drive was mostly an argument about whether a file existed and when it was last touched. And of course, trying to recover deleted material. Today the same report might need to address whether a video is real, whether a...
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...
