This book is for individuals concerned about how their personal information becomes digitally recorded — investigators looking for a smoking gun or smoldering e-mail held in all types of electronic media; professionals required by lawsuit or audit to turn over their e-mail or business records; information technologists facing a subpoena or discovery request for electronic documents; lawyers wanting to know how to identify and use electronically stored information (ESI) to either win or not lose a case; and members of the court who want to know how to evaluate arguments about e-discovery (costs and burdens), the admissibility of paperless evidence, and the truth that it reveals.
Anyone who needs a quick read to understand e-evidence and computer forensics will benefit from this book too. From our experience, those folks are the accused, crime victims, anyone facing discovery requests, and their lawyers.