Due to the economy, many corporate legal and risk management departments — when not coping with their own layoffs — are focusing on issues relating to workforce reductions. Restructured companies are redistributing workloads and collecting documents, computers, PDAs and electronic files from departing employees.
Unfortunately, these actions may contribute to a perfect storm of risk, leading to the destruction of evidence pertinent to an existing legal hold (or a duty to preserve evidence).
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