you probably need to talk to an electronic discovery expert. email
Craig Ball, a Texas attorney. This is his area and he has worked on
Enron, etc. His email is craig@ball.net. Another good contact is Alex
Lubarsky an attorneys in San Francisco who works for FIOS--an electronic
discovery co.: alubarsky@enterusa.com.
(tell them I sent you!)
Carole
Carole Levitt
President, Internet For Lawyers
P.O. Box 1065
Culver City, CA 90232
310/559-2247
clevitt@netforlawyers.com
http://www.netforlawyers.com
ABA Author:
"The Lawyer's Guide to Fact
Finding on the Internet"
http://www.internetfactfinder.com
Chair:
California State Bar
Law Practice Management & Technology Section
http://www.calbar.ca.gov/lpmt
"Ginsberg, Deborah" wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but I'm wondering
> if anyone has come across domestic/estate cases where evidence existed
> only on some kind of obsolete computer system (e.g. a draft of a will
> written on a Commodore 64). If you have seen this happen, has it
> occurred often? What kinds of systems were involved? Were you able
> to retrieve the documents and if so, how?
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance. I'm writing a talk on
> obsolete computer systems and the loss of personal documents and I had
> been wondering if this loss had any effects in the legal world.
>
> Debbie Ginsberg
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Illinois Institute of Technology
> Downtown Campus Library
>
> 565 W. Adams St.
> Chicago, IL 60661
> 312-906-5673
> dginsberg@kentlaw.edu
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