Incredibly, lawyers who’d never let the opposition fish about in a client’s home or office blithely give a green light when it comes to trolling a client’s computers. No matter how much you want to demonstrate good faith or that your client has “nothing to hide,” be wary of allowing the other side to look at the drives, advises Craig Ball. And for anyone hunting for a smoking gun, Ball issues a reminder about the risk of unwittingly altering data in the process.
Incredibly, lawyers who’d never let the opposition fish about in a client’s home or office blithely give a green light when it comes to trolling a client’s computers. No matter how much you want to demonstrate good faith or that your client has “nothing to hide,” be wary of allowing the other side to look at the drives, advises Craig Ball. And for anyone hunting for a smoking gun, Ball issues a reminder about the risk of unwittingly altering data in the process.
Incredibly, lawyers who’d never let the opposition fish about in a client’s home or office blithely give a green light when it comes to trolling a client’s computers. No matter how much you want to demonstrate good faith or that your client has “nothing to hide,” be wary of allowing the other side to look at the drives, advises Craig Ball. And for anyone hunting for a smoking gun, Ball issues a reminder about the risk of unwittingly altering data in the process.
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