“Fifteen Years in Your Court”
Supreme Court of Maryland Denied Certiorari in Guthrie v. Vincenti
August 22, 2026Craig Ball posted “Fifteen Years in Your Court” a few days ago. He wrote:
Fifteen years ago yesterday, frustrated that a legal-media conglomerate had put a decade of my articles behind a paywall, I started Ball in Your Court. From that christening to this quinceañera, I’ve penned 283 posts viewed 690,650 times. More than 2,000 people subscribe to receive them. I’m grateful to everyone who tolerates the updates and indebted to the roughly half who take the time to click through.
Everyone practicing in any area of electronic discovery owes a debt of gratitude to Craig.
A small sample of his writings—just this year—includes:
- The Annotated ESI Protocol
- Guide to Deep Fake Evidence
- E-Evidence Workbook 2026
- Leery Lawyer’s Guide to AI and LLMs
- Forms That Function
- Litigator’s Guide to Metadata
Craig’s 638-page Electronic Evidence Workbook is a great teaching manual. I always enjoyed his introduction:
Despite its complexity, all digital content—photos, music, documents, spreadsheets, databases, social media, and communications—exist in one common form: as faint electric charges or impossibly tiny reversals of magnetic polarity. These minute polar fluctuations are read by a detector flying above the surface of a spinning disk on a cushion of air one-thousandth the width of a human hair in an operation akin to a jet fighter flying at more than 800 times the speed of sound less than a millimeter above the ground, precisely counting every blade of grass it passes!
My estimate is that it would fill a terabyte or more to list all of his contributions, including his many expert engagements, presentations, writings, special master appointments, law school teaching positions and materials, forensic certifications, academic degrees, and other accomplishments.
I have relied on his materials, such as:
- Book Review: Craig Ball, “The Leery Lawyer’s guide to AI and LLMs in Trial Practice”
- Book Review: Craig Ball, “Forensic Tells: The Litigator’s Guide to Detecting Deepfakes and Authenticating Digital Evidence”
I have often cited his works, e.g., District of Maryland Gives Qualified Approval to Non-Forensic Downloads of Social Media Data and Another A.I. Protective Order – Part 10, to cite only two.
So, thank you Craig—and please keep posting, presenting, teaching, and writing!
