Ride the Lightning
This blawg has been developed to share electronic evidence news, to report and reflect upon current computer forensics and electronic discovery developments and to offer a lighthearted view of electronic evidence from the trenches. From the blawg you can find a link to the blawgger's ABA podcast series, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology.
Author: Sharon D. Nelson is president of Sensei Enterprises, a legal technology and computer forensics company based in Fairfax, Va. She currently serves on the governing council of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section and as chair of its publications board.
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Recent Posts from Ride the Lightning
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SINCE I’VE BEEN BANGING ON TEXAS . . .
Thanks to those readers who wrote and are also upset with the requirement in some states that computer forensics technologists obtain PI licenses to practice their profession. As one reader pointed out, there is a…
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COMPUTER REPAIRMEN: DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS!
As readers of this blog know, I go ballistic when states require computer forensics technologists to get PI licenses. These two disciplines are apples and oranges. I’ve no objection to the licensing, so long as…
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POOL PARTY! THANKS TO GOOGLE EARTH
The electronic evidence in this case certainly proved to be entertaining - and very new age. During June, police in Britain have been receiving reports of massive trespassing from homeowners who own pools and have…
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MICHIGAN GETS IT WRONG: COMPUTER FORENSICS AND SAM SPADE
How does this keep happening? Michigan has now joined a handful of other states in requiring that computer forensics technologists have PI licenses. It is no surprise that the PI lobby WANTS to horn in…
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SKEPTICAL JUDGE CAUSES WOBBLY KNEES
It is always extraordinary what lawyers will argue to judges. We recently had the honor of lecturing on electronic evidence with The Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee (E.D.V.A.), who not only is a great presenter but…
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THE EVIL INTERNET DEFENSE: FOR REAL THIS TIME?
The “evil Internet” defense is the bane of computer forensics. Normally, we hear this argument from those who are charged with child pornography – inevitably, they profess their innocence and their normal ludicrous argument is…
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EXPECT ZERO PRIVACY AT WORK
Heidi Glynn, from NPR, recently interviewed me and wrote a very nice piece which can be found at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91604666. Note how the percentage of employers monitoring employees has continued to rise: “According to a 2007…
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R. KELLY ACQUITED: BOTCHING THE EVIDENCE
On June 13th, hip-hop star R. Kelly was found innocent of child pornography charges which involved a DVD of an adult man having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Amid the circus that always accompanies such…
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LAWYER SNOOP RECEIVES TWO YEAR SUSPENSION
On May 23rd, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals suspended Michael P. Markins from the practice of law for two years after he broke into his wife’s law firm computer system while looking for…
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WHALES SWALLOWING WHALES: FTI ACQUIRES ATTENEX
On June 10th, FTI Consulting Inc. announced that it had signed a merger agreement to acquire Attenex. Purchase price? Approximately $88 million in cash. This is now an electronic discovery and ESI processing behemoth and…