Sean Harrington

Sean Harrington

Attorney Client Privilege, LLC

Sean Harrington is a Wisconsin attorney and digital forensics examiner. He is the founder and principal of Adamant Digital Forensics, LLC, through which he has provided digital, mobile-device, and audio forensics, electronic discovery support, trial strategy, and expert-witness services to attorneys and law firms since 2005 and of Sean Harrington Law, a criminal-defense and ethics consulting practice. His digital forensics casework spans criminal, family, probate, and civil matters in state and federal courts across the Upper Midwest and beyond, including mobile-device extraction and analysis, cloud and social-media evidence acquisition, cell-site location analysis, recovery and authentication of deleted data, media provenance, and spyware and account-compromise investigations. He has testified as an expert, served as a court-appointed third-party neutral to resolve allegations of evidence alteration, and been retained to review the work of other examiners. Mr. Harrington's experience draws on legal, information-technology, software-engineering, regulatory-compliance, and information-security backgrounds. Before returning to full-time practice, he served as Senior Manager, Product Security at Abbott Laboratories, chaired a law firm's privacy and data-security practice, and led information-security risk assessment at U.S. Bank. He is a Special Investigator for the Office of Lawyer Regulation of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and a volunteer investigator for the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility's Fourth District Ethics Committee. He has taught digital forensics as adjunct faculty at Century College since 2008 and served as an adjunct professor of cybersecurity law at Concord Law School. He holds the CISSP, CHFI, CIPP/US, CCFP (retired), MCSE (retired), and Certified SOX Professional credentials and is a Cellebrite Certified Operator and Cellebrite Certified Physical Analyst. He is a member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and the Wisconsin and Minnesota Associations of Criminal Defense Lawyers. His publications include articles in the Wisconsin Lawyer and the William Mitchell Law Review on collaborating with digital forensics experts and on the use of technology in e-discovery, and he is a frequent presenter for NBI, the State Bar of Wisconsin, WACDL, and Strafford on electronic evidence in criminal and family matters. He received his certificate in computer forensics from Century College and his J.D., with honors, from Taft Law School. He is admitted in Wisconsin (active) and California (voluntarily inactive).

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    Alaska CLE Reciprocity 6 Total
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    California CLE Approved 6 Total
    Colorado CLE Approved 7 Total
    Connecticut CLE Approved 6 Total
    Delaware CLE Approved 6 Total
    Florida CLE Approved 7 Total
    Georgia CLE Approved 6 Total
    Hawaii CLE Approved 6 Total
    Iowa CLE Approved 6 Total
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    Illinois CLE Approved 6 Total
    Indiana CLE Approved 6 Total
    Kansas CLE Approved 7 Total
    Kentucky CLE Approved 6 Total
    Louisiana CLE Approved 6 Total
    Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
    Minnesota CLE Approved 6 Total
    Missouri CLE Approved 7.2 Total
    Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 6 Total
    Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
    North Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
    Nebraska CLE Approved 6 Total
    New Hampshire CLE Approved 6 Total
    New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
    New Mexico CLE Approved 6 Total
    Nevada CLE Approved 6 Total
    New York CLE Approved 7 Total
    Ohio CLE Approved 6 Total
    Oklahoma CLE Approved 7 Total
    Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
    Rhode Island CLE Upon Request 7 Total
    South Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
    Tennessee CLE Approved 6 Total
    Texas CLE Approved 6 Total
    Utah CLE Approved 6 Total
    Virginia CLE Approved 6 Total
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    Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
    Wisconsin CLE Approved 7 Total
    West Virginia CLE Approved 7.2 Total
    Wyoming CLE Approved 6 Total
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