Everyone has heard of computer searches, and we’ve all seen some version of them in films or on television, usually when criminal investigations are depicted. Civil litigators, however, may have a hard time seeing how computer searches fit into their cases, what type of evidence they can expect to find through a search, and how that evidence would look. This article describes the possibilities of computer searches and how the evidence they uncover is most effectively presented.
Computer searches are becoming more common in civil cases of all kinds. In intellectual property matters, when a departing employee takes trade secrets to a rival company, the employee’s computer and the company’s servers are examined to see what data was copied and whether the employee had communicated surreptitiously with the rival.
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