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....
by Steve Burgess | Jun 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’m sure that you have reviewed a lot of preservation letters. Some of them are excellent — thorough, specific, and sent at exactly the right moment. Others read like they were written in 1997 and then never updated, which, in fairness, some of them were. Still others...
by Steve Burgess | Jun 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
(copyright Steve Burgess 2026) One of my favorite client conversations goes something like this: Client: “I deleted it.” Attorney: “Can you get it back?” Forensic examiner: “…define ‘it.’” Television has taught us two completely opposite and equally wrong ideas:...
