E-Discovery Bytes : E-Discovery Lawyer & Attorney : Quarles & Brady Law Firm : Electronic Discovery, Data Preservation, Conversion, Computer Forensics

This summer the whole country, particularly those of us living on the gulf coast, anxiously watched the seemingly endless images of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico following the deadly explosion on the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon.  While the leak has only recently been capped, litigation stemming from the oil spill has already commenced.

In a recent article on law.com, Fred Blum and Nader Mehizadeh noted that much of the litigation stemming from the BP oil spill will depend on volumes of electronically stored information in BP's control.  After noting the potential e-discovery disaster that may come upon BP if its electronically-stored information (ESI) is not properly handled, the authors outlined the following six factors that can help anyone avoid an e-discovery disaster:

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