E-Discovery
is a comprehensive course designed to educate professionals to recognize and handle electronic information.
 
The course will explore:

  • Electronic discovery
  • The role of electronic information in the business environment
  • Electronic messaging
  • Collecting and searching electronic information
  • Discovery and the production of electronic information
  • Rules of discovery
  • Non-compliance with discovery demands
  • Electronic information and the rules of evidence
  • Admissibility, Hearsay

The Impact of the Proposed Federal eDiscovery Rules

The Sedona Principles of eDiscovery

  • Volume & duplicability of digital evidence
  • Digital documents are more difficult to dispose of than paper documents
  • Digital data is dynamic
  • Digital documents have metadata
  • Environmental dependence of digital documents
  • Digital data is characterized by its dispersion & search ability

Understanding digital data

  • Deleted data
  • Metadata
  • Spreadsheets

American Bar Association eDiscovery Standards

The impact of eDiscovery

Protection of digital evidence

  • Privileged information
  • Protective orders
  • Retention systems
  • Production

Complying with regulatory Law

Litigation Software

  • Concordance
  • Summation

The power of the court to appoint experts

Federal Court’s handling of digital information

  • JEDDI
  • PACER

State Court’s handling of digital information

Networks, Network Operating Systems (NOS) & Operating Systems(O/S)

  • Novell Netware
  • Linux
  • Unix
  • Windows

Discovery vs. eDiscovery

Discovery Rules

Finding pertinent information

  • Keyword searches
  • Key custodian identification
  • Time & date filters
  • Privilege
  • De-duplication

Civil discovery standards of 2004 (ABA Standards)

Discoverable digital information

  • Files that where never saved
  • Deleted documents
  • Active data
  • Remnants

Preservation orders

Subject interviews

Depositions

Responding to eDiscovery requests

  • Identify
  • Preserve
  • Process
  • Review
  • Produce

Cost shifting strategies

 

Spoliation

  • Sanctions
  • Preservation plans

Computer forensics

  • Acquisitions
  • Investigations
  • Analysis
  • Factual Testimony
  • Expert Testimony

Digital evidence – admissibility

Expert witness reports

Optical character recognition

Court presentation: computer generated evidence

Technology in the courtroom 

Knowledge Center's computer Forensics training provides you the skills to successfully identify the evidence of computer related crime and abuse cases. This may range from tracing the tracks of a hacker through a client's systems, to tracing the originator of defamatory emails, to recovering signs of fraud.

"I learned far more information that I expected. The instructor was able to give us plenty of hands-on instruction with real world examples." - Joe Flanagan, Cambridge, MA

"The small class size and easy learning environment were outstanding. The instructor was knowledgeable in the course material. The training was a great experience. Now I am ready to implement my knowledge in the field." - Brett Dian, Sterling, VA

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  • PWC
  • Fannie Mae
  • Freddie Mac
  • America Online
  • Verizon
  • Jefferson Wells
  • IBM
  • BearingPoint
  • GEICO
  • MorganFranklin
  • Sprint Nextel

and many more