Digital Forensic Files: Computer Forensics
Our deeper two-part treatment of computer forensics for legal professionals, covering acquisition, artefacts and the reporting a lawyer has to read and test.
Offered by Legal Cyber Academy
Disclosure
This is one of our own courses, and we are paid when someone buys it. It is listed here on the same terms as everything else in this directory — with its real limitations stated below — because a directory that hid its publisher’s own offerings among neutral recommendations would not be worth reading. Several entries on this page cost less than ours, and some cost nothing.
The facts
- Cost
- $39.99 one-time with lifetime access, or included in the $49-per-month all-access subscription. A second part is published as a separate course.Figure read 2026-09-12 from www.legalcyberacademy.com/courses/digital-forensic-files-computer-forensics
- Prerequisites
- None, though it lands better after an introductory course.
- Format
- On-demand video across two parts, with a certificate on completion.
- Length
- Self-paced across two courses.
- Renewal
- No renewal or recertification requirement is published for this entry.
- Accreditation
- None. We are not an accredited continuing-education provider and no CLE pre-approval is claimed.
- Who it suits
- A lawyer who already has the basics and needs enough detail to cross-examine an examiner on acquisition and artefact interpretation.
- Audience
- Lawyers & in-house counsel
Strengths
- Goes further than an orientation course into acquisition and artefacts, while staying in plain English.
- Two parts, so the material has room to be specific rather than gestural.
- Still an order of magnitude cheaper than any technical certification here.
Limitations
- $39.99 buys video, not competence with a tool. There is no lab, no dataset and no graded work.
- Two parts means two purchases unless you take the all-access subscription.
- No accreditation, no exam-backed credential and no guaranteed CLE credit.
- A reader who wants to examine computers rather than litigate about them will get more from IACIS CFCE or ISFCE CCE, both of which require graded practical work we do not offer.
Sources
Costs, prerequisites and exam formats in this field change often, and several providers price by region, cohort or employer agreement. Every figure on this page carries the date it was read and a link to the page it was read from. Confirm current terms with the provider before you spend anything.
Other legal cyber academy options
- Digital Forensics for Lawyers (track)(our own course)
- Cracking the Digital Case: Digital Forensics(our own course)
- The Digital Verdict: Mastering Smartphone Evidence in the Courtroom(our own course)
- Legal Cyber Academy All-Access(our own course)