Spoliation
What Is a Trigger Event?
A trigger event occurs when a party can reasonably anticipate litigation; it initiates the duty to preserve potentially relevant evidence.
3 Actionable Steps To Creating a Litigation Response Plan
Without a clear, strategic litigation readiness and response plan, you run more than the risk of scrambling in a panic to react to a threat.…
What Is Ediscovery Collection?
What happens in the collection phase of ediscovery and what can go wrong? From metadata concerns to targeted collections, we’ve got your answers.
What is Big Data in Ediscovery?
The more data you have, the higher your ediscovery costs. Therefore, the first step to driving down the cost of ediscovery is simply reducing the…
Defendant failed to establish that unpreserved evidence was irretrievably lost
In this contract dispute, the court denied the defendant’s motion for spoliation sanctions, finding that it had not conclusively established that the evidence in question…
Appellate court reverses exclusion of evidence about spoliation, remands
We’ve previously written about GN Netcom, Inc. v. Plantronics, Inc. — a long-running antitrust matter involving egregious spoliation of emails — but the saga isn’t…
