Electronic Discovery and Evidence

Employees fired for destroying electronic data

Schwab probe reveals improper fund trading

By Josh Friedman
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Published November 15, 2003

"U.S. Trust spokeswoman Allison Kellogg said the two employees in the firm's institutional mutual fund sales group were fired for allegedly trying to destroy electronic evidence, which was recovered and given to authorities. She said the pair allegedly were involved in making deals with "a handful of institutional clients" who traded about a half-dozen of the funds."

Print Files Software

PrintFile is a freeware Microsoft Windows utility program that will enable you to print files. The program recognizes plain text, PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and binary formats. http://www.lerup.com/printfile/

Print Directory Lists

Rjh Extensions v1.3v - Freeware - This utility adds some useful capabilities including the capability to print and save directory lists. http://www.rjhsoftware.com/downloads.html

Muhammad had computer generated maps of shooting areas

From the Baltimore Sun

By Stephen Kiehl
Sun Staff

"Also found in the car was a laptop computer containing electronic maps of the shooting scenes, some marked with a skull and crossbones, and the draft of a letter demanding money for an end to the killings. A note left in the woods near the scene of one shooting demanded $10 million. Malvo's fingerprints were found on the note."http://www.dailypress.com/news/bal-te.sniper25nov25,0,4746067.story?coll=dp-breaking-news>

Electronic Discovery and Evidence

Michael Arkfeld's Electronic Discovery and Evidence is a comprehensive book for discovering and admitting electronic evidence. The book addresses every aspect of this process including electronic information storage, outside expert assistance, the inherent benefits of electronic formats, as well as the laws and procedures for admitting evidence in your case. These concepts are essential in today's rapidly changing information age. Learn more about Electronic Discovery and Evidence.

The Digital Practice of Law

The Digital Pratice of Law

Michael Arkfeld's (5th Edition)... The book takes a comprehensive approach to using technology in the law office. The goal of this book is to approach the technology implementation from a "total" approach. All aspects of a case - case management, billing, interrogatories, documents, transcripts, graphics, Internet applications, in-court presentation and so on are discussed in this book to provide an understating of how the pieces fit together

Pen Drives

Try Today's Hip Technology: Portable Flash Drives
by Daniel Fidel Ferrer

"I want to tell you about a new technology called a flash drive. Sometimes these are called USB hard drives or more specifically pen drives, key chain drives, key chain memory, pocket drives, thumb drives, USB mini-drives, USB Memory Keys, or simply removable flash disk drives. They are best described as portable hard drives that fit on a key chain or in your pocket, and you simply plug them into USB ports, where they're automatically recognized as another external drive and are ready to use in seconds." http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov03/ferrer.shtml

SPYWARE Report

Ghosts in Our Machines:
Background and Policy Proposals on the “Spyware” Problem
November, 2003
Overview
"Over the last several years, a loosely defined collection of computer software known as “spyware” has become the subject of growing public alarm. Computer users are increasingly finding programs on their computers that they did not know were installed and that they cannot uninstall, that create privacy problems and open security holes, that can hurt the performance and stability of their systems, and that can lead them to mistakenly believe that these problems are the fault of another application or their
Internet provider.

The term “spyware” has been applied to everything from keystroke loggers, to advertising applications that track users’ web browsing, to web cookies, to programs designed to help provide security patches directly to users. More recently, there has been particular attention paid to a variety of applications that piggyback on peer-to-peer file-sharing software and other free downloads as a way to gain access to people’s
computers. This report focuses primarily on these so-called “adware” and other similar applications, which have increasingly been the focus of legislative and regulatory proposals."
http://www.cdt.org/privacy/031100spyware.pdf

Biometric Timecards

November 4, 2003 Dow Jones WebReprint Service®

Big Employer Is Watching
Companies Monitor Workers With New Tracking Systems

By KRIS MAHER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"It's 9 a.m. Do you know where your workers are?

Increasingly, companies do. In their drive to squeeze greater efficiency from staffers, a growing number of employers are embracing sophisticated electronic tracking systems to ensure their workers are at their desks and work stations when they are supposed to be. And while many blue-collar workers are used to punching a time clock, many of the new tracking systems are trained on white-collar, salaried employees.

At New York law firm Akin & Smith LLC, paralegals, receptionists and clerks clock in by placing a finger on a sensor kept at a secretary's desk. "It keeps everyone honest," says Derek T. Smith, a managing partner at the firm. "I like to see how long they take for lunch," he says, adding that the system so far has been "very successful" in boosting productivity.

For Wanda Ortiz, a 24-year-old paralegal, the firm's biometric system was a bit of a shock at first. "I never saw anything like this" at three previous law-firm jobs, she says. But she says placing her thumb on the sensor whenever she enters or leaves the office has made her more conscious about getting back to work on time after breaks. "I do rush at lunchtime if I go out," Ms. Ortiz says." http://webreprints.djreprints.com/861950252181.html

Medical Videotapes and CD's of Medical Operations Seized

"On Aug. 7, according to a search warrant, police seized from Marion Medical: All compact discs and videotapes produced during coronary catheterizations over the last three years; all logs and record books from the procedures; all pharmaceutical order forms; and all computer hard drives and other electronic devices containing correspondence relating to patients going into cardiac arrest."

http://www.starbanner.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031123/NEWS/211230352/1001/FEATURES01
Published November 23. 2003 8:30AM