by Steve Burgess | Sep 23, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, CSI, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Evidence Preservation
TV has made digital forensics seem like it’s a piece of cake—all you have to do is lean toward a blurry security camera frame, say “Enhance,” and it will work. Every time. (At least on CSI.) In honor of the week, here are a few things television has taught the public...
by Steve Burgess | Sep 21, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones
Your client wanted an early start. What he handed over was an early Exhibit A. Picture this: he knows he’s under investigation, but he’s anxious, he can’t sleep, and he wants to get ahead of the thing. So, he opens a chatbot at 1 AM and does what...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 31, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery
Your phone has been keeping a travel diary. For years, Google kept a copy too. That made possible one of the more controversial investigative tools of the smartphone era: the geofence warrant, sometimes called a reverse-location warrant. Instead of starting with a...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 17, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Elder Abuse, Electronic Discovery, Expert Witness Insights, Litigation Support
By Steve Burgess, Burgess Forensics, 2026 “He passed last month, and his whole life is locked inside his phone. Can’t you just get in?” I hear some version of that rather often —more than you might think, in fact. The request comes from grieving families, from...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 3, 2026 | AI, Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Expert Witness Insights, Forensic stories, Litigation Support, Technology & Law
The format language in a discovery request is easy to skip over. It looks like boilerplate. It reads like boilerplate. It is actually boilerplate. And so it gets waved through: “produce as PDF, that’s fine.” Maybe not so fine when that same attorney...
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...
