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 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:...
by Steve Burgess | May 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Digital Evidence Is Bigger Than Most Cases Realize copyright Steve Burgess 2026 There’s a scene in television forensics that appears in approximately 94.27% of all episodes. Someone in a dark room says, “Pull up the computer.” Then ten seconds later, another person...
by Steve Burgess | Apr 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Metadata as a Silent Witness: What It Can Reveal About Your Case Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess Every digital file has two stories to tell. The first is the one you can read — the contract, the email, the photograph. The second story is invisible, buried in the file...
by Steve Burgess | Mar 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Email, Texts, & Cloud Data: Where Critical Evidence Hides, Part II Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess In over four decades of digital forensics work, I’ve examined more than 20,000 devices and pieces of digital evidence. And in that time I’ve...
