Chief Legal Officer, Vestige Ltd

A co-founder of Vestige, Don has been providing criminal defense lawyers and civil litigation attorneys with the legal expertise and Computer Forensic techniques and expertise to extract, preserve, analyze and present evidentiary data contained on electronic media to aid attorneys with their cases.

Don has been involved in the testing and validating of Computer Forensic tools, testing Law Enforcement forensic tools for accuracy and reliability to satisfy Daubert-Frye requirements for admissibility of scientific data as evidence. This included establishing testing protocols as well as being active in professional associations devoted to Computer Forensics, including: CASPR_ITCRIME Workgroup and Computer Forensic Tool Testing (CFTT).

Don is an avid speaker on the topic of Computer Forensics and provides seminars to the area Bar Associations, as well as CuyahogaCommunity College and statewide Bar Associations. In addition, he has been published in numerous periodicals on the subject.

Don came to Vestige from his own company, Computer Investigation and Evidence, Inc. which he had founded and grew to be one of the top computer forensic firms in Ohio. Prior to his arrival at Vestige, Don was also a founder of an insurance company and a partner with the firm of Baker & Hostetler.