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...
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 | 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....
