Where are my keys, I lost my phone

Courts expect parties to preserve and produce digital evidence. The problem? Lawyers don't know how.

My age, plus or minus eighteen months, in a single sentence:

When I got my first cell phone, most of my friends had pagers.

Motorola. Flip phone. Dark gray. Went about four days on a single charge. My dad sat me down and discussed “roaming” charges before handing it over. I hadn’t asked for the thing, but I took it seriously.

Texting began to exist, by …