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Mr. Friedberg is an expert in cyber-crime response, computer forensic investigations and electronic discovery. He has become a national leader in responding to all forms of computer crime and abuse, including cyber-extortions, theft of trade secrets, leaks of confidential information, hacks and unauthorized access, denial of service attacks, illegal electronic surveillance, and Internet-based harassment. Mr. Friedberg supervises the digital forensics practice at the firm and has managed numerous forensic assignments for major law firms, corporations, prosecutors, and defense attorneys in criminal, civil, regulatory and internal corporate matters. He has pioneered a methodology for detecting forgery and backdating of electronic documents. Mr. Friedberg is a thought-leader in electronic discovery consulting, and has authored book chapters and scholarly articles on electronic discovery strategy and technology. He has used this expertise to manage numerous electronic discovery projects in civil and regulatory proceedings, many of which are global in scope and require the preservation, processing and production of electronic data from hundreds of computers, servers, PDAs and removable media. As Co-President of Stroz Friedberg, Mr. Friedberg co-manages the business of the firm, supervises the forensics, marketing, and investigative departments, and leads the firm s expansion efforts. Prior to joining Stroz Friedberg, Mr. Friedberg was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he served as the Computer and Telecommunications Coordinator (CTC), the lead computer crimes prosecutor, the Chief of Narcotics and Senior Litigation Counsel. As CTC, he conducted and supervised investigations and prosecutions involving computer crime and abuse, telecommunications fraud, including an extortionate denial of service attack against Internet Trading Technologies, Inc.; a scheme to defraud Expedia.com of millions of dollars in electronic airline tickets utilizing stolen credit card information; the defacement of the Yankees.com website; a scheme that compromised half of AT&T s calling card business to China; a scheme to unlawfully tap and decode digital police communications; the Internet-based sale of custom cell phones equipped with keypad-programmable wiretapping capability; and the cracks of telephone switches, military, and educational servers. As Senior Litigation Counsel, Mr. Friedberg investigated and tried public corruption, securities fraud and international money laundering cases. As Chief of Narcotics, he investigated and tried numerous narcotics, racketeering, homicide and hostage-taking cases, and gained expertise in the area of court-ordered electronic surveillance. Mr. Friedberg was responsible for the investigation and conviction of six accomplices who carried out the Cali-cartel ordered murder-for-hire of Manuel De Dios Unanue, the former Editor-in-Chief of El Diario, New York City s largest Spanish-language daily newspaper. Prior to his tenure at the U.S. Attorney s Office, Mr. Friedberg was an associate at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP in New York, where he was involved in all phases of intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions and product liability litigation. Mr. Friedberg is a member of the electronic discovery Working Group of the Sedona Conference; the Cyber-Law Committee of the American Bar Association; and the Electronic Discovery Committee of the New York State Bar. He is a former member of the Information Technology Law Committee of the Bar of the City of New York. | 