Forensics and eDiscovery explosion

clipped from www.law.com Ball emphasizes that forensics is too important and complicated to be a part-time job for an IT person. A record of published work; Respect from peers; Considerable court experience; Report-writing skills; and Extensive focus on the discipline. Ball recommends looking for a computer-forensics expert that provides formal training and meaningful certification -- something with substantial components of practice examination, peer review and experience, like CCE (certified computer examiner) or EnCe (EnCase certified examiner). He also suggests that your expert have: The electronic-discovery phenomenon is here to stay -- and the industry is still exploding.