Question

Jason Blair is a CPA who has been asked to serve as an expert witness in a civil case involving theft of employee secrets. His client, Rexmem, has filed suit against its former IT director, alleging that the former employee stole proprietary information relating to Rexmem’s products, product strategies, and marketing plans and conveyed the stolen information to her new employer.

Rexmem intends to make its case by showing that the former IT director had access to the information in question. Furthermore, as soon as the IT director started working for her new employer, the employer began announcing new products that were identical to products that Rexmem had been planning to announce. Moreover, the competitor also began to run adverting campaigns that exactly matched those planned by Rexmem.

Jason has an extensive expert background in information systems and information technology.

a. How could Jason Blair prepare to serve as an expert witness?

b. What type of research should he do?

c. Is his IT background sufficient for a case that involves marketing issues?

Answer 1

Jason Blair has to find out whether the former IT Director  has access to the marketing information in question by doing Forensic analysis of his client's information systems.

He can check the computer of the IT Director to check the files received, sent and also to retrieve the deleted files which can have crucial information . He also need to check the Mails exchange which involves the former IT director.

No his Background will not be sufficient,They also need the experts who can assist us to find out releasing the same kind of product from the competitor may be or may not be coincidence