A client asks you to investigate a potential medical malpractice matter. You immediately seek all the relevant medical records only to discover that a portion of the records, vital to the determination of the matter, no longer exist. The physician contends the missing records were inadvertently lost during a conversion of written office notes to an electronic format. Can you still make a case for your client?
Welcome to the law of spoliation of evidence.
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