Posts Tagged ‘litigation’

An interesting news story appeared in the Denver Post on December 26, 2008. It was a story about the expected rise in wrongful termination lawsuits as the economy worsens.

From the Denver Post Article by Carol J. Williams:”But labor and employment lawyers warn that a tidal wave of wrongful-termination lawsuits is expected in the coming months as the jobless burn through their savings, run up debt and find few work prospects in the worst economic downturn in decades.

Many companies I speak with mention the fact that they have some small percentage of their email traffic in an encrypted format. This can be either because of company or regulatory requirement or even more, because employees don’t want the content read by the company.

Encrypted email can represent a major risk in a corporate civil litigation if the company doesn’t have the encryption key.

Corporate legal departments fall into two main groups; those that have been through civil litigation, including discovery, and those that have not. Many of those legal departments that have not been through litigation and discovery have wildly different expectations as to their responsibilities and the work involved in responding to a discovery request.