Reid Wittliff
President
reid@r3forensics.com
Reid Wittliff is a founder and President of R³ Digital Forensics. Reid works on a variety of digital forensics, cyber crime investigations and data breach response cases. Reid also serves as a trusted advisor to high-level executives, in-house counsel and law firms on the technical and strategic aspects of digital forensics and e-discovery.

Prior to founding R³, Reid was the Chief of the Texas Internet Bureau Division (now the Cyber Crimes Unit) of the Texas Attorney General’s Office, where he led a team of police officers and prosecutors whose mission was to combat cyber crime across the State of Texas. Reid also previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas and was the district's Computer and Telecommunications Crimes Coordinator. While in these positions, Reid investigated and prosecuted numerous computer crimes involving hacking, software piracy, child pornography and online fraud. During this period, Reid also helped found the North Texas Regional Computer Forensics Lab (NTRCFL), an innovative, multi-agency initiative created to tackle the growing volume and importance of digital evidence in the law enforcement arena. The NTRCFL has since become the first federally funded regional computer forensics lab in the United States and the second regional lab to be accredited in computer forensics.

Reid also practices law and is a shareholder in the Austin, Texas law firm of Lancaster, Helling, Grable, and Wittliff, L.L.P. At Lancaster Helling, Reid's legal practice focuses on technology-related litigation and cyberlaw consulting. He has been involved in multiple theft of trade secret cases involving theft of computer code and other digital files, the prosecution and defense of copyright infringement claims, and the prosecution and defense of numerous cases involving claims of computer spying and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In his legal practice, Reid frequently advises clients with respect to the laws that regulate data security, online communications and privacy.

Reid earned his J.D. with Honors from The University of Texas School of Law in 1994 where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and of the Chancellors, the highest academic honor awarded by the law school. After law school, Reid served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable William Wayne Justice, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas. Reid graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1991 cum laude.

Reid is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the American Bar Association, the Austin Bar Association, the American Law Institute and the Robert W. Calvert American Inns of Court. He serves as an advisory Board member to The University of Texas Science, Technology and Society Program. He is also a member of the boards of directors of the Texas Book Festival and the Austin Children's Museum.  He is an Advisory Board Member to the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.