Given the large role that electronic evidence now plays in litigation, law students are searching for ways to become knowledgeable in electronic data discovery and the fundamentals of technology. At the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, one avenue is “E-Discovery, Digital Evidence and Computer Forensics,” a class taught by adjunct professor Patrick Burke.

Burke is senior director and assistant general counsel at Guidance Software, an e-discovery vendor. He previously was a U.S.-based litigation associate for U.K.-based Linklaters, and before that was technology counsel at another EDD vendor, nMatrix (now Epiq Systems).