The Miami Herald Technology Law Column.

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Byline: Mark Grossman

Apr. 23--If you've ever been involved in any type of litigation, you know that finding evidence to support your position is one of the keys to victory. As a tech lawyer, I sometimes am asked by other lawyers to look at nontech cases and offer advice on electronic evidence. Electronic evidence can make or break a case -- often in surprising ways.

Let's start with the basics. "Electronic evidence" is any information of any type that's stored in electronic form and is relevant to a particular litigation. It might be stored on things like a hard drive, floppy disk or DVD.

When you consider what electronic evidence you might be able to dig up (or what electronic evidence the other side might find when they start chomping into your bytes), you should take into account that every time you touch a computer, you may be creating electronic...

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