Demystifying Computer Forensics - A Litigator’s Guide

Introduction

The proliferation of electronic data, storage devices, cloud storage, and social media continue to present practitioners with many challenges in marshalling relevant information for legal purposes. Collecting the right data in the right way is crucial to managing costs and delivering beneficial outcomes for clients.

This session is relevant to all practitioners who are involved in factual investigations and litigation, especially those who do not have in-house data management resources in their firms.

If avoidable mistakes are made, this could result in wasting money, losing the case, or being held professionally negligent.

This is intended to be an interactive session with participants sharing their experiences. By the completion of the session, participants will have the confidence to approach every project appropriately and to navigate the divide between law and technology.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following;

• Demystify and simplifying the decisions that have to be made and to enable practitioners to comply with their professional and procedural obligations whilst grasping the nettle of good project management.
• The options and challenges facing collection and self-collection of data.
• Techniques for searching your client’s data, searching your opponent’s data and managing the discussions with an opponent around the Disclosure Review Document.
• Finding the right technology to use and getting the best out of it.
• The session will refer to key cases through including:
• Genius Sports Technologies Ltd & Ors v Soft Construct (Malta) Ltd & Ors [2022] and massive ‘overdisclosure’
• Astra Asset Management UK Ltd & Anor v MUSST Investments LLB & Ors [2020] - Knowing when you've novated
• Brown v BCA Trading Ltd & Ors [2016] and the use of predictive coding

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.