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May 1, 2007  Sean Mulholland and Robert Jones presented a program on computer forensics for Coffman, Coleman, Andrews & Grogan's World Wide Web of Labor and Employment Law seminar.

January 29-31, 2007  Sean Mulholland and Robert Jones attended the LegalTech conference and trade show in New York, NY.

• Corporate Dispute  A dispute between family members who jointly owned a large business devolved into accusations of theft of company property.  A forensic examination of the laptops of key employees and a portion of the server failed to show clear evidence of inappropriate actions since the primary suspect was an owner and had access to all areas in dispute.  However, evidence was found that the partner was surreptitiously recording the conversations of employees and other partners.

• Labor Relations  A small business owner was sued by a former employee on grounds that she was not paid for overtime worked before her resignation.  The employer stated the employee had been the only person in the office and the only way to determine she was actually working was by reviewing the logs from the server.  The logs showed the employee logged on to the network at around 8:30am and was not logged off many days until after 8:00 the next morning.  Because of that, he was not able to determine how long she worked or if she worked after 5:00pm at all.  A forensic examination of the employee's workstation showed that, on the days in question, there was no activity at all after about 5:30pm.  Even though she was still logged on to the network, she was not using the computer at all.

• Worker’s Compensation  A software engineer on long-term disability claimed he could not return to work at a computer, even for an hour at a time, because of vertigo and carpal tunnel syndrome.  Our client, the insurance company, obtained a court order allowing a forensic examination of the claimant's home computer.  Rather than provide the computer, the claimant provided 7 hard drives which had been installed in his computer over several years.  Examination of the computer showed the claimant spent a lot of time on the computer sending emails, surfing the internet, applying for jobs, and playing video games which required a flight simulator-style joystick.

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