Expert Details
Forensic Computing and Electronic Discovery
ID: 727805
United Kingdom
Expert has both a postgraduate diploma in law, (CPE), and a postgraduate diploma in legal practice (LPC). He has worked in the IT industry since qualifying from law school in 1995. Expert has more than a decade’s experience in consulting to law firms, accountancy firms and investigators with respect to electronic evidence. He has been quoted many times in national newspapers, has provided numerous seminars on electronic evidence, and is a member of the Society for Computers & Law.
Expert regularly consults to organisations that wish to understand what data has been removed by a current/former employee in contravention of both company policies and intellectual property rights. He regularly consults to general counsel and outside-counsel in the planning and execution of electronic document disclosure as part of the litigation process (UK Civil Procedure Rules Part 31). Projects that he has completed range up to statements of claim in the hundreds of millions of Pounds, covering multiple jurisdictions and terabytes of data. Expert consults to general counsel and outside-counsel in the planning and execution of a company's internal document reviews to support regulatory and other investigations.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1995 | Degree: LPC | Subject: Legal Practice (Equivalent of Bar Exams for England & Wales) | Institution: Leeds Metropolitan University |
| Year: 1994 | Degree: CPE (Common Professional Exams) | Subject: Law | Institution: Leeds Metropolitan University |
| Year: 1991 | Degree: B.Sc | Subject: Biochemistry | Institution: The University of Leeds |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2006 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Managing Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert is the Managing Director of Expert Legal Technologies, a full service e-Discovery and Forensic Computing company based in London, (United Kingdom). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1998 to 2006 | Employer: Kroll | Title: Managing Director | Department: Technology Services Group (Kroll Ontrack) |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: to Present | Country / Region: France | Summary: Expert was instructed by a UK based technology company to investigate the leak of proprietary information by a subsidiary office in Paris. |
| Years: to Present | Country / Region: Russia (Moscow) | Summary: Expert was instructed by a global pharmaceuticals company to execute the extraction of email data from multiple backup tapes and filter the data for relevancy. This activity was pursuant to a regulatory investigation. |
| Years: to Present | Country / Region: United States | Summary: Expert has be instructed on numerous occasions by attorneys in the United States, usually for data collection and processing projects in the European Union. On one specific occasion the instruction lead to a full scale regulatory investigation by the SEC which required his expertise to be employed in the US. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert has significant experience in advising clients and lawyers in the most proportionate yet thorough approach to forensic computing and electronic disclosure exercises under Part 31 of the Civil Procedure Rules. He has a high degree of experience in supporting the technical elements of internal investigations. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| "eDisclosure in the UK - similarities and differences to US based eDiscovery" |
Fields of Expertise
computer, computer analysis, computer data recovery, computer data storage, computer disk, computer equipment, computer file, computer forensics, computer mapping, computer network, computer technology, data, data acquisition, data conversion, data recovery, digital computer, e-discovery, electronic mail, forensic computer, forensics, hard disk, information system, information technology, information forensics, data protection, local area networking, computer reconstruction, data processing, computer science, computer memory