Panel: Lawyers, Judges and Digital Forensics: Evaluating Situational Awareness and Evidentiary Skills with Electronic Evidence, from Cybercrime to Civil Lawsuits.

This panel of attorneys, and others, will discuss situational awareness and skills of lawyers, judges and computing professionals relating to evidence law and rules of procedure for using electronic evidence and digital forensics. The panel may address the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for the discovery and handling of electronic evidence that are effective December 1, 2006, their impact in federal courts and their influence in state courts.