The stakes are high for the lawyers, paralegals and technologists at ALM Media’s annual gathering in New York, especially when it comes to the privacy and protection of mobile data.

As DLA Piper partner—and former U.S. Department of Justice cybercrime coordinator—Ed McAndrew observed, “The best evidence is now held in mobile devices and the apps, social networks and cloud services we utilize with those devices. Any investigator or litigator who ignores that evidence may be committing malpractice in many instances.”