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• The Complex Insurance Coverage Action's Case Management Process: From Complaint Until Trial --The Policyholder's Perspective ( August 2004 )
  John E. James of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

  Policyholders and their counsel often are under the impression that efficient litigation management is a one-sided affair. While the objective for them, as with virtually all plaintiffs, is to obtain recovery as soon as the administration of justice in a particular jurisdiction will permit, insurance companies and their counsel appear in many cases to seek the opposite.

• Safe Communication: Guidelines for Creating Corporate Documents That Minimize Litigation Risks ( April 2004 )
  Joseph F. Falgiani of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP

  Products liability defense cases are particularly vulnerable to "bad" company documents. A company trying to manage the risks presented by bad documents needs more than a document retention program. It requires an educated work force that understands the risks that are created whenever anything is written down in the workplace, either in paper or electronic form. This article suggests a program to educate employees and raise their consciousness about the litigation risks attendant to the creation of documents.

• The Impact of Discovery Limitations and Cost-Sharing on the Corporate Class Action Defendant after Zubulake ( September 2003 )
  Curtis P. Cheyney and James C. Haggerty of Swartz Campbell LLC

  Corporate defendants today are faced with numerous discovery dilemmas stemming from the increasing use of electronic information storage. The exponential growth of computer use in both the business and private sector has led to an explosion of information stored on hard drives, floppy disks, and back-up storage devices. Data can be in the obvious form raw data, or the less obvious cookie and cache files, metadata or other embedded data. Even data believed deleted may still be retrievable from file servers.

• Low-Tech, Low-Cost Document Automation Systems ( November 1999 )
  Norvell E Brasch of

  This article discusses the best way to manage and retrieve documents through a three-level approach to knowledge management systems.

• Document and Record Management--Its Time has Come... ( October 1999 )
  Michael R Arkfeld of US Attorney's Office, Arizona

  Examined are the characteristics of various document and record management systems and methods.

• Expanding Scope of Attorney-Work-Product Doctrine: United States v. Aldman ( May 1998 )
  Keara M O'Donnell of DLA Piper US LLP

  This article discusses the opinion in U.S. v. Aldman, 134 F.3d 1194, in which the Second Circuit held that the work-product doctrine may shield business reports from disclosure under the attorney work product doctrine).

• Work Product Privilege Applies To Reinsurance Documents In Illinois ( April 1999 )
  David W. Kenna of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass

  The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, recently decided that correspon.

• Your Guide to Fair Employment ( March 1999 )
  Department of Justice

  The contents consist of the list of acceptable documents on the inside cover and the Form I-9 on the inside back cover. Other information includes an explanation of what INA is and how it affects employers, information on how to avoid immigration-related problems.