Despite broad familiarity with the litigation-related duty to preserve relevant evidence, including electronically stored information (ESI), many corporate litigants have been subjected to severe sanctions due to an increasing judicial intolerance for the failure to preserve ESI.
In today's legal climate, even an inadvertent delay in preserving ESI, which extends to both electronic and hard copy materials, remains too important to ignore.
Wilson Elser's 2016 white paper guides litigants through their responsibilities to preserve evidence and provides valuable information on implementing a defensible legal hold process. We trust that this document will serve you well in this regard.
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