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Heard a partner at a Denver firm say 'the clock started on discovery the second that email was sent'
I was grabbing lunch near the courthouse and overheard two lawyers talking. One said their client lost a big case because they didn't put a legal hold on emails fast enough after a dispute began. The other lawyer said that's now standard in their merger talks, to tell everyone to save everything from day one. It made me realize how a simple internal message can become a huge deal later. Has your company changed how it handles records when a deal might go bad?
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the_vera1mo ago
Three days? That's insane lol. I mean if a client emails you "hey I'm thinking about suing" and you wait 72 hours to lock things down, that's basically giving them a head start on deleting everything. I know a guy who got his company hit with spoliation sanctions because someone's auto-delete setting purged a folder of old emails after a hold went out. They literally had to pay the other side's legal fees for the mess.
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