Recent headlines involving Texas Senate candidate James Talarico illustrate a challenge attorneys increasingly face: a purportedly explosive piece of digital evidence emerges, one side embraces it...
EDGE Alert: The Bull Stopped There: A Cautionary Tale
“Is it worth $642,337.65?” Courtesy of the Honorable Richard J. Sullivan, that’s your ready-made response the next time a client tells you that they can’t be without their phone for preservation for...
EDGE Alert: Calm the Litigation Storm with Better ESI Protocols
Burt Garland, a veteran litigator at Ogletree Deakins, and I were recently comparing notes on what we’ve seen go south when there’s pronounced contention between parties where electronic evidence is...
EDGE Alert: Disable iPhone SDP to Avoid Major Collection Frustrations!
Hold On! Before turning over that iPhone for collection, SDP MUST be disabled. Otherwise, the phone must be sent/handed back to start all over again! Apple’s Stolen Device Protection (“SDP”)...
EDGE Alert: Material Differences Between Common Phone Collection Methodologies
There a material differences in what is collected depending on which of the two forensically-sound collection methodologies is used. And, there are no "do-overs." A second, later collection will...
EDGE Alert: 40,000 Message Sync Holes!
Apple’s Messaging Sync is Blasting Holes in iPhone Collections This latest Protek Practitioner’s EDGE Alert reveals a critical, yet seemingly little-noticed cell phone messaging development with...
EDGE Alert: Cell Phone? Do this Immediately!
EDGE Tip: Cell Phone?: Do This. Immediately! What should you tell a client to do with a cell phone until it can be properly preserved? Our last Practitioner’s EDGE Tip explained the urgency in...
EDGE Alert: Major iPhone Preservation Development
Heads up! The Headline: Apple Is AUTO-Deleting Texts from iPhones Simply put, that’s what you MUST know, that Apple near-instantly auto-deletes text messages from iPhones (or whatever Apple device)...
EDGE Alert: Preserve phones quickly!
You MUST act fast. The take-away from this Protek Practitioner’s EDGE Tip is this simple: Failure to move with haste to properly preserve mobile device content puts you at great risk for viable...