Well drafted litigation hold letter can be the difference between a company being sanctioned or not Duty to preserve arises generally when a party is alerted that certain information is likely to be ...

A litigation hold is a process used by companies to advise employees of pending or anticipated litigation and their obligation to preserve relevant records, and to suspend their normal ...

A legal hold – often referred to as a litigation hold – is the formal process an organization uses to preserve all information that may be relevant to a current or potential matter, audit, or ...

The first thing is to determine the location of any of the data under the litigation hold. This could mean there’s some at the company, some at the internal counsel’s system, some on the external ...

Timothy J. Pastore, Esq., is a Partner in the New York office of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP (www.mmwr.com), where he is Vice-Chair of the Litigation Department. Before entering private ...

March 31, 2026 - Employee departures represent a critical inflection point in data preservation. Without a documented, coordinated departing employee process for individuals subject to legal hold, the ...

A federal judge yesterday ruled that Google intentionally destroyed evidence and must be sanctioned, rejecting the company’s argument that it didn’t need to automatically preserve internal chats ...

In a new filing in Epic Games’ antitrust case against Google, lawyers for the plaintiffs have submitted a number of exhibits that attempt to demonstrate Google employees’ tendency to switch off chat ...

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If your company uses AI transcription in Zoom or Teams meetings, here’s a question worth asking now before litigation hits: Do you know how those transcripts are treated when a lawsuit is on the ...