Extract from Victoria Hudgins’ article “Still Scarce, Digital Forensics Crawls Into Public Defenders’ Offices”
Utilizing e-discovery and advanced analytics on new data repositories like social media is becoming the norm in Big Law and large corporate legal departments handling civil matters. But this isn’t so much the case in public defenders’ offices, many of which are usually outmatched by prosecutors’ access to digital forensics software while a client’s freedom hangs in the balance.
