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In Challenges in Recovering Deleted Email computers expert witness Steve Burgess writes:

There are three main types of email in common usage – Microsoft Outlook (often paired with a Microsoft Exchange Server), text-based email client programs, and web-based email, or webmail.

In Microsoft Outlook, all emails are kept in one large, encrypted, non-text file – the PST, or Personal Folders file. Outlook has additional functions and additional content as well. There is an integrated address book, multiple mailboxes, a calendar, and a scheduler, all of which are contained within the PST file. When one looks into a PST file with a file editor or word processing application, there is little or nothing intelligible to the human eye. The file content looks like nearly random characters.

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Fire expert witness John J. Lentini testified last week in defense of Joseph Awe who is in prison for arson. Lentini, CFEI, F-ABC, of Scientific Fire Analysis, LLC, says the fire that burned down the Marquette County, WI, JJ’s Pub was an accident started in an electrical box and not arson. The expert authored the book Scientific Protocols for Fire Investigation.

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The Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Trial Advocacy Section on Monday, Oct. 8 presents its “TAP (Trial Advocacy Project): Expert Witness Workshop.”

According to the LACBA meeting announcement, “The Expert Witness Workshop” provides introductory and advanced level instruction on how to use expert witnesses in civil and criminal actions, with special emphasis on expert testimony.

According to the announcement:

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Paralegal Knowledge Institute is offering a free one hour webinar Dispute Resolution and eDiscovery October 30, 2012. The instructors are Yoav M. Griver, Esq., Partner at Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP and Daniel Garrie, Esq, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Legal Technology Risk Management and the Journal of Cyber Warfare. They co-authored the book, Dispute Resolution and eDiscovery.

More info: http://www.paralegalknowledge.com/eDiscoveryDisputeResolution

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In Construction Process Can Lead to Defects, construction expert witness Michael S. Poles, GC, CM, RCI, DABFET, ACFE, writes on the complex process involved in a building project:

Cost vs. Profit The pursuit of lower costs can become a powerful driving factor, which all too often leads to construction defects, especially during a recession such as the current recession that the construction industry has faced throughout the past four years. These highly competitive elements are forcing contractors into resorting to the widespread practice of using semiskilled, and, most often, unskilled labor to perform skilled labor tasks. These skilled labor tasks in the past have always required extensive training, certification, and years of experience.

In addition to this widespread and growing practice of the utilization of questionably skilled labor, supervision is also waning. All too often, semiskilled and even unskilled crews are left to their own devices to perform their work on the job site without proper supervision or even without any supervision at all.

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In The Seven Rules for Hiring a Wireless Technology Expert, wireless technology expert witness Jonathan Wells PhD, MBA,

President, AJIS Wireless Consulting, writes:

Nowadays, wireless technology is ubiquitous. We all carry cell phones, navigate via GPS, check our emails when sitting in coffee shops and hotel rooms, and connect to the internet wirelessly from our homes and offices. Wireless technology is readily available, always on, and everywhere.

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Environmental expert Edward Kuk spoke before the Bridgewater, NJ, planning board regarding the environmental impact should developer Steven Lang build 18 homes on 34 acres of woodlands. Sixty nearby homeowners are hoping to stop approval of the construction application citing negative impact on wildlife and vegetation.