Califorensics, a division of Vilfer & Associates, offers invaluable computer forensics and eDiscovery services to law firms and businesses worldwide.  As experts in the area, we consult with clients regarding the proper procedures and protocols to obtain electronic evidence to support the case.  Don Vilfer is a legal instructor in the area of computer forensics and electronic discovery, former special agent in charge of the FBI's computer crimes and computer evidence team and certified in computer forensics examination.  Pam Hanback and the rest of our examiners also have extensive computer forensics experience and have served as court certified experts in this area.  What distinguishes our Firm from other service providers is the application of experience and knowledge as we process evidence, resulting in a final product that is relevant, understandable and helpful (as opposed to a simple data dump).  The Firm is equipped to deliver electronic discovery in a forensically sound manner and in commonly used formats (TIFF, Summation load files, etc) in compliance with standard protocols.  Examples of how computer forensics have been successfully used include:

• Examination of thumbdrives and computers for theft of company data
• Locating chat messages to disprove sexual harassment
• Identifying copying of sensitive data to CD to pass to competitor
• Retrieving web-based emails from office computer (Yahoo!, AOL, GMail etc)
• Reviewing forensics evidence and reports presented by opposition
• Production of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) as part of eDiscovery.

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