Destruction of Evidence
Jamie S. Gorelick, Stephen Marzen, Lawrence B. Solum · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2001
You've just concluded a lawsuit against a company that allegedly infringed your client's patents. A second lawsuit involving the same patents, but against a different company, is a distinct possibility. Should you cleanse your files of documents and depositions assembled in the first lawsuit if that would help you in the second? Another client has just received a complaint and a docu? ment production request. The client's in-house counsel wants to order the immediate destruction of relevant docu? ments before a court orders their production. What is your advice?