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<b>Practice Tip: </b> A Balanced Approach to Evidence Collection

By Patrick Murphy
December 28, 2006

It's Friday at 4:00 p.m. It's been a long week. You just received an e-mail from your client wherein she informed you that the CIO has opted to collect requested evidence internally by searching the company mail server for relevant e-mail. As soon as this is done, she will send you a CD-ROM with the responsive e-mails for review. It should be pretty simple to fulfill the discovery request. So much for going home early.

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