Will your litigation hold meet a judge's expectations? And if not, what are the potential consequences? Are you looking at sanctions or millions of dollars' worth of forensic discovery? To get a glimpse of at least one federal court's view on this, we look to the Oct. 2, 2012, decision in...

As commentators lodge their support or dismay over proposed changes in federal e-discovery rules, cautionary tales continue to be written. When it comes to inadvertent disclosure, practitioners have lessons to learn from $900,000 in sanctions levied against two defendants whose failed data-preservation...