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 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 | Sep 4, 2022 | Forensic stories
Printers and Copiers Left Out of the FBI’s Search of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago copyright, 2022, Steve Burgess We’ve only recently learned the content of the search warrant that the FBI used to search the premises of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort and...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 7, 2017 | CSI, Forensic stories, Humor, Uncategorized
Not everything always works out in Forensicland. Sometimes we strike out. In more ways than one. I was gazing out the tall windows of my office at the blue, blue Santa Barbara sky, with nary a cloud in sight. It was my 50-something birthday. The bills were ignored. It...