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Perspective

Apr. 1, 2010

Is Your Smoking Gun Shooting Blanks? E-Discovery Can Help You Decide

Technology empowers counsel with the means to independently verify that "smoking gun" document, write Daniel Garrie of ARC and Yoav Griver of Zeichner Ellman & Krause.

By Daniel Garrie and Yoav Griver

Every attorney, whether outside litigator or in-house counsel, is familiar with the following scenario. You are knee-deep in litigation when your client or employee hands you a copy of an e-mail or document that exactly supports your asserted claims or defenses the proverbial "smoking gun" document. It is exactly what you were hoping you would find in discovery. Yet, even as you celebrate, warning bells begin to chime. You realize that yo...

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