Technology is often key to helping any business endure a government investigation or lawsuit—and can just as often be the company’s undoing if it navigates the perils of e-discovery poorly.
Lackey
“The work you’ve done prior to that day is going to determine in large measure how effective you’re going to be in your response,” Michael Lackey, a partner at the law firm Mayer Brown, said during a Jan. 28 Webcast on best practices to manage e-discovery.
One best practice, Lackey said, is to have a sense of what electronic documents will be examined—either by government investigators or defense attorneys—and what ...