Cyber Law and Data Privacy Committee (11/17/26)

Topic: Getting Digital Evidence Ready for Family Court

Speakers: Jonathan D. Steele, Partner, Beermann

Description: A contested message is useful only for a defined evidentiary purpose. This program follows a partial screenshot through preservation, discovery, foundation and objections to a proposed hearing exhibit. The central dispute concerns authorship, context and timing. A recording and location record supply short variations. Illinois law governs the examples.

Attendees will learn to state the fact an exhibit is offered to establish and distinguish it from a broader inference, draft source-specific preservation and discovery language, including context and time information; select a foundation route and separately analyze hearsay, completeness and originals or duplicates; and prepare an exhibit plan.

(IL MCLE credit for live webcast only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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