Inside the SFL - Electronic Discovery Edition, June 2009
NEW SFL DIRECTOR OF DATA FORENSICS & COLLECTIONS ANDY CRAIN COMMUNICATES STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES OF COSTSAVING, RISKREDUCING EDISCOVERY SOLUTIONS
 Andrew M. Crain has joined SF Legal as Director of Forensics and Collections. A licensed attorney, Andy has more than 10 years of forensics, collections and ediscovery experience. He will work with you to develop cost-saving, risk-reducing solutions that ultimately decrease data review and production time throughout the e-discovery process.
“Andy is especially adept at balancing electronic discovery technology with process management and communicating with clients. As an attorney, he understands the challenges, knows how to strategize, and can explain the benefits of various solutions, one litigator to another,” said SF Legal CEO Christian Lawrence.
APPELLATE COURT DECISION REFERS TO CRAIN'S FINDINGS
 Andy has global experience assisting clients with litigation matters involving theft of trade secrets, employment disputes, government/regulatory inquiries and fraud. He has given expert witness testimony in hearings, depositions, and at trial, and has also served as a courtappointed neutral forensics examiner. An example of a recent opinion based on his findings was posted on April 24, 2009 in the Electronic Discovery Law¹ blog on legal issues, news and best practices relating to the discovery of electronically stored information published by K&L Gates.
ABOUT ANDY CRAIN
Before joining SF Legal as Director of Forensics and Collections, Andy Crain served as the Computer Forensics Lab Director in the San Francisco office of SafirRosetti Global Options, a security, investigations and intelligence firm. He holds the EnCE® certification from Guidance Software and has completed computer forensics training courses offered by Guidance Software, AccessData and New Technologies, Inc. Mr. Crain holds a J.D. from the Colorado University School of Law and a B.A. in Journalism and History from Butler University.
 SF LEGAL’S “CPR” HELPS CLIENTS BREATHE THROUGH
E-DISCOVERY STRESS
SF Legal provides clients with “CPR” for their ediscovery challenges – namely, lower total cost solutions (C), superior project (P) management, and risk (R) mitigation. “We give our ediscovery clients CPR so they can breathe easier during the day and sleep better at night. Andy is an expert at collecting data in a defensible manner. He will be key to supporting all three CPR components,” Mr. Lawrence said.
(1)“Acknowledging Trial Court's Efforts to Fashion an Appropriate Sanction, Appellate Court Rejects Arguments that Sanction was Punitive and Affirms Award of $90,000.”
http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2009/04/articles/case-summaries/acknowledging-trial-courts-efforts-to-fashion-an-appropriate-sanction-appellate-court-rejects-argument-that-sanction-was-punitive-and-affirms-award-of-90000/
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