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Overcome Discovery and Evidentiary Hurdles
Are you able to locate and get your electronic evidence admitted, and overcome tricky situations throughout the process? Join our experienced faculty as they showcase some of the most prominent issues with social media and smartphone evidence in family law and how you can work around them. Stay up to date - register today!
- Discover how to uncover and use a spouse's prompts and chat history as evidence.
- Gain key insights on collecting and preserving social media, emails, text messages, and other forms of digital evidence.
- Know how to overcome key evidentiary hurdles.
- Explore the boundaries of ESI discovery for family law.
- Effectively authenticate social media, email, and cloud-based data.
- Practice in an ethical manner when dealing with upper-level discovery and evidence issues in family law.
Abbreviated Agenda
- AI in Family Law Discovery and Evidence
- Overcoming Key Discovery and Evidentiary Challenges With Social Media
- Cloud-Based Technology in Discovery
- Smartphone/Tablet Discovery in Divorce
- Email Evidence and Divorce Discovery Challenges
- Digital Photos, Videos, and Audio Files - Beyond the Basics
- Admitting Digital Evidence: Overcoming Authentication and Hearsay Hurdles
- Legal Ethics of Social Media and Other ESI
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Credit Details
Credits Available
| Credit | Status | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Alaska CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Alabama CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Arkansas CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Arizona CLE |
|
6 Total |
| California CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Colorado CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Connecticut CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Delaware CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Florida CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Georgia CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Hawaii CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Iowa CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Idaho CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Illinois CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Indiana CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Kansas CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Kentucky CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Louisiana CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Maine CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Minnesota CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Missouri CLE |
|
7.2 Total |
| Northern Mariana Islands CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Montana CLE |
|
6 Total |
| North Carolina CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Nebraska CLE |
|
6 Total |
| New Hampshire CLE |
|
6 Total |
| New Jersey CLE |
|
7.2 Total |
| New Mexico CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Nevada CLE |
|
6 Total |
| New York CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Ohio CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Oklahoma CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Pennsylvania CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Rhode Island CLE |
|
7 Total |
| South Carolina CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Tennessee CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Texas CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Utah CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Virginia CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Vermont CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Washington CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Wisconsin CLE |
|
7 Total |
| West Virginia CLE |
|
7.2 Total |
| Wyoming CLE |
|
6 Total |
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Agenda
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AI in Family Law Discovery and Evidence
- Using AI for Discovery Requests and Responses
- Analyzing Communications and Digital Evidence
- Financial Discovery and Hidden Asset Detection
- Discovery of AI Prompts and Outputs
- Admissibility and Evidentiary Issues
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Overcoming Key Discovery and Evidentiary Challenges With Social Media
- Personal Data Storage Timelines
- Practical Collection Techniques
- Social Media Subpoenas
- Keeping Metadata Intact
- Spoliation Issues
- Ephemeral Messaging: What Can be Done
- Hidden, Private, and Deleted Accounts
- When Social Media Evidence is Made Inadmissible
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Cloud-Based Technology in Discovery
- Collecting and Examining Digital Evidence From the Cloud
- Preservation, Authentication, and Spoliation Considerations
- Evidence Usability in Court: Key Issues
- Retrieving Deleted Data
- Cloud-Based Technology and Collaboration Tools
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Smartphone/Tablet Discovery in Divorce
- Preservation and Spoliation Issues
- Ephemeral Messaging
- Collection Challenges
- Subpoenas
- Ensuring Evidence Usability in Court
- Deleted Data Retrieval Options
- Overcoming Hearsay Issues
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Email Evidence and Divorce Discovery Challenges
- Proportionality and Necessity Factor Considerations
- Spoliation and Email Retention Policies
- Preserving Metadata and Recovering Deleted Emails
- Avoiding Privacy Violations
- Authenticating and Admitting Email Evidence
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Digital Photos, Videos, and Audio Files - Beyond the Basics
- Preservation and Spoliation Issues
- Preserving Metadata and Recovering Deleted Files
- Ensuring Admissibility in Divorce Court
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Admitting Digital Evidence: Overcoming Authentication and Hearsay Hurdles
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Legal Ethics of Social Media and Other ESI
- Ethical Issues in Obtaining Evidence
- Confidentiality and Privilege
- Handling Prejudicial Evidence
- False or Dubious Evidence
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for attorneys. Paralegals may also benefit.
Speakers
Speaker bio
Kirk C. Stange
is a founding partner of Stange Law Firm, PC, a multi-state family law firm with offices in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Through his dedication to clients and their family law matters, he has earned numerous honors, including being named a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers Honoree for Family Law from 2015 to present (the final published Super Lawyers list represents no more than 5% of attorneys in each state). He has also been recognized by Missouri Lawyers Media on The POWER List Top 30 for Family Law since 2020, was named to the Top 100 Power List in 2025, and received the Law Firm Leader Award in 2026. Mr. Stange is an author with Thomson Reuters (Aspatore Publishing), contributing to Strategies for Military Family Law: Leading Lawyers on Navigating Family Law in the Armed Forces (Inside the Minds) and Strategies for Illinois Family Law: Leading Lawyers on Leveraging Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiating Alimony and Child Support, and Managing Client Expectations (Inside the Minds), and is the author of the full-length book Prenuptial Agreements Line by Line. He is licensed in Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas, and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and earned his J.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Speaker bio
Eric K. Johnson
has been in practice since 1996. He is the owner of Utah Family Law, LC, a firm that practices specifically in divorce and family law. Mr. Johnson is the author of West's Utah Practice Series, Volume 2, Utah Family Law, which has been published annually since 2006. He is a member of the Utah State Bar. Mr. Johnson provides legal education through Utah Family Law TV - UFLTV, Quora, and the firm's website. He earned his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and his J.D. degree from Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Speaker bio
Donelle H. Ratheal
is president of Ratheal Family Law, P.C., where she practices in the areas of domestic relations and probate litigation, trial and appellate. She is a member of the Family Law sections for both the American and Oklahoma bar associations, as well as a member of the Canadian, Custer and Beckham County bar associations. Ms. Ratheal earned her B.M. degree from the University of Denver, her M.M. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and her J.D. degree from the University of Oklahoma. Honors and awards include Lawyers of Distinction, Super Lawyers, and Top 10 Family Law Attorney.
Speaker bio
Jason F. Hicks
is a deputy county attorney with Guilford County, North Carolina. He is licensed in both Tennessee and North Carolina. Mr. Hicks is admitted to practice in the federal district courts of the Middle District of North Carolina and Tennessee, and the federal appellate courts of the fourth and sixth circuits. Over the course of his career, he has practiced family/divorce law, probate, and civil litigation, as well as elder law, juvenile law, and local government law. Mr. Hicks is a member of the Greensboro, District 24 (NC), Putnam County (TN), Tennessee, North Carolina, and American bar associations. He serves as a member of the board of directors, chair of the community involvement committee, and the fellows committee chairman for the Greensboro Bar Association. Mr. Hicks is currently the immediate past president of the North Carolina DSS Attorney's Association. He is past president of the Putnam County Bar Association and the Upper Cumberland Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Hicks is also the past vice president of the Tennessee Bar Association-Young Lawyers Division. With the North Carolina State Bar Association, he serves on the BarCARES Board of Directors, Council for the Local Government and Public Sector Section, and Council for the Juvenile Justice and Children's Rights Council. Mr. Hicks is a frequent speaker at legal education seminars having presented over eighty continuing legal education presentations. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity and chief legal advisor for the fraternity. Mr. Hicks is a master member and vice president of the Guilford Chapter, American Inn of Courts and chair for the Program Review Committee, American Inn of Courts. He earned his B.A. degree from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his J.D. degree from Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. Outside of the profession, Mr. Hicks is involved in the Masonic fraternity, United Methodist Church, and Scouting America (Boy Scouts). He is married to Dr. Megan Henley Hicks and they have two children, John Howard Hicks, II ("Jack") and Elizabeth Jane Hicks ("Libby").
Speaker bio
Spencer D. West
is an equity partner, shareholder and co-founder of the law firm of Mitchell & West, LLC. He specializes in the area of family law. Mr. West is admitted to The Florida Bar and Massachusetts Bar Association; where he actively represents clients in an array of cases including divorces, custody, child support, relocation, modification, paternity and domestic violence disputes. In addition, he is permitted to practice before Florida federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. West has assisted many professional clients, including but not limited to doctors, lawyers, accountants and retired professional athletes with their high asset divorces and other disputes; as well as with drafting custom pre and postnuptial agreements. He is sought out by clients and other lawyers for his extensive expertise and dedication to fighting for his clients. Mr. West is an aggressive litigator who devotes himself to achieving the best results for his individual clients, while maintaining the highest ethical standards of professionalism. He earned his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston and his J.D. degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Speaker bio
Sean Harrington
is the founder and managing principal of Attorney Client Privilege, LLC. He is a nationally-recognized cybersecurity practitioner, digital forensics examiner, and law professor, providing and overseeing risk assessments and vulnerability assessments (including penetration testing), consulting about information security and privacy policies, and implementing projects or programs to facilitate compliance with those policies and applicable regulations. As a forensic investigator, Mr. Harrington conducts examinations of and provides expert testimony regarding computer and server hard drives, mobile devices (phones and tablets), cell data localization records, and Internet evidence (e.g., Facebook, Web postings, etc.). His expertise includes corporate fraud, labor disputes, domestic relations, child pornography investigations, Adam Walsh Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, electronic discovery, work product doctrine, and attorney client privilege. Mr. Harrington's experience is derived from legal, information technology, software engineering, regulatory compliance, risk management, and information security backgrounds. He is qualified to serve as a digital forensics examiner, expert witness, and court-appointed third-party neutral, and has extensive experience in litigation support, including electronic discovery, the Rules of Evidence, the Rules of Civil Procedure, motions practice, pre-trial practice, and appellate practice. Although admitted to the state bars of California and Wisconsin, Mr. Harrington cannot serve in the role of counsel or provide legal advice while serving as an expert (and cannot serve as legal counsel in any state other than California or Wisconsin). He maintains professional credentials and certifications in the areas of digital forensics (CHFI No. ECC930566, CCFP No. 335034), information security (CISSP No. 335034), regulatory compliance (CSOXP No. 00185), network engineering MCSE, MCP+i, No. 977426), and data privacy (CIPP/US). Mr. Harrington is licensed to practice digital forensics by the Texas Private Security Bureau (Dep't Public Safety Reg. No. 00001547). He attended Bethel University, received a certificate in computer forensics from Century College and earned his J.D. degree, with honors, from Taft Law School.
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