Paul Starrett

P.O. Box 301
Saratoga, CA 95071

408-803-2288

Fax 408-904-7117

paul@starrettlaw.com

Credentials

Membership

  • Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
  • California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI)
  • Professional Investigators of California (PICA)
  • California State Bar
  • Infragard, San Francisco Chapter
Active Licenses
  • Private Investigator, California license #18413
  • Attorney, California license #215196 

National Publications

Investigative

  • Interview and Interrogation with Eyewitness Evidence, Author, LawTech Publications (now a college text for Corinthian)
  • Eyewitness Testimony, Author, LawTech Publications
  • Private Investigations, Co-Author, LawTech Publication
  • Police Identification Guide, Publisher, Starrett Publishing
  • Professional Investigations, Co-Author, LawTech Publications
Legal
  • PKI Assessment Guide, Original Contributor, Information Security Committee, ABA
  • Digital Evidence Guide, Editorial Board Member, Information Security Committee, ABA

Technical

  • Digital Signatures, Lead Author, McGraw-Hill

Public Speaking

  • Reconstructing Electronic Transactions: Legal and Technical Issues, HTCIA Annual Conference, Monterey CA - August 2005
  • Reconstructing Electronic Transactions: Legal and Technical Issues, ACFE Annual Meeting, Marin CA, November 2005
  • Reconstructing Electronic Transactions: Legal and Technical Issues, California District Attorneys' Association, March 2006
  • Reconstructing Electronic Transactions: Legal and Technical Issues, California Association of Licensed Investigators (San Jose), March 2007
  • E-Discovery and Special Issues for Investigators: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (Bay Area), October 2007
  • Issues in Eyewitness Evidence: California Association of Licensed Investigators (San Francisco), May 2009
  • E-Discovery and Special Issues for Investigators: Professional Investigators of California (PICA - Bay Area), April 2011 
Certifications

  • Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
  • EnCase Certified Computer Forensics Examiner (EnCE)
  • Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)
  • Advanced Certificate in Interview and Interrogation - Wicklander and Zulawski Associates
  • Xilinx Programmable Logic Training Course - assumes knowledge of logic design (SSI up to VLSI), basic EE and material science concepts, and processor and FPGA design issues.
  • Completion of Science and Technology Internship certificate (programming), NASA Ames - one year program in programming, primarily Unix and LabView. 
Admissions to Practice Law
  • Supreme Court of the State of California
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California 

Published Appellate Cases (as attorney-of-record)

  • People of the State of California vs. Mark Anthony Colbert (2007) (157 Cal.App.4th 1068).  

Education

  • B.S., USNY
  • J.D., Peninsula University School of Law
  • Master of Laws (LL.M; postgraduate) in Taxation, Golden Gate University (3.4 GPA)
  • Completion of Level One Reserve Police Academy
  • Over 150 hours of classroom instruction from Guidance Software (EnCase) to include basic computer forensics, advanced computer forensics and use of EnCase scripting language, Enscript.
  • Graduate Course in Copyright Law at Santa Clara University School of Law
  • SQL Programming in Microsoft SQL Server, Learning Tree
  • Instructor, Univeristy of Phoenix, Criminal Justice Administration
  • Instructor at Sam Brown Group Investigations Academy in Financial Investigations and Copyright Infringement