Litigation Alert: New Federal Law To Reduce Litigation Expense

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Litigation Alert: New Federal Law To Reduce Litigation Expense

On September 19, 2008, the President signed into law a bill

aimed at reducing litigation expense.1 If you have

experienced litigation, you know that a large amount of time and

money is spent reviewing documents and data?not just for

relevant evidence, but to preserve attorney-client privilege and

work-product protection.2 A careful review must be made

to ensure that no privileged communications are inadvertently

disclosed.3 Clients prudently make costly efforts to

prevent disclosure of any privileged documents, because a court may

find that an inadvertent production of an otherwise inconsequential

document has waived the client's privile...

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