Reid Wittliff

Reid 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 founding partner of the Austin, Texas law firm Wittliff Cutter, PLLC. At Wittliff Cutter, 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. 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 and was a member of the College Scholars Honors Program.

Reid is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the American Bar Association, the Austin Bar Association, the American Law Institute and is a former member of the Robert W. Calvert American Inns of Court.