Technological innovations present unique challenges to legal professionals and the experts who serve them, such as digital forensic specialists. This program will provide an overview of the field of digital forensics, including a discussion of the more common ways that digital forensics can be used by legal professionals to advance the interests of their clients in internal and regulatory investigations, civil litigation, and criminal defense work. The program then will examine the legal and business issues presented by the recent explosion of social networking and media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, and the implications of the widespread popularity and use of these kinds of sites. This part of the program will focus on understanding what information is available on social networking and media sites, recognizing how that information can be of evidentiary value, and evaluating identification and preservation strategies for this type of electronic data, as well as legal and ethical considerations surrounding the preservation and collection of this kind of data.