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Lack of Candor with the Court and Opposing Counsel Regarding E-Discovery Leads To Sanctions for Outside Counsel

Posted By DiscoveryResources.org Reporter On June 3, 2009 @ 4:22 pm In Case Law,Case Law & Rules,Featured Articles,Governance, Risk & Compliance,Home Page Featured,Home Page Latest,Law & Technology,Library,Technology Counsel | No Comments

Kim Newman is a partner in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office and a member of the Business Trial and Litigation and Electronic Discovery and Document Retention Practices recently wrote about sanctions that were imposed on outside counsel for Plaintiff Bray & Gillespie Management LLC for a “pattern of withholding and concealing information concerning discoverable material” from both the Court and opposing counsel.

The problems began with a failure to Object to the Request for ESI in Native Format and then failure to produce it. Continue reading…. ^[1]

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[1] Continue reading….: http://www.omm.com/lack-of-candor-with-the-court-and-opposing-counsel-regarding-e-discovery-leads-to-sanctions-for-outside-counsel-05-11-2009/

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