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• Document Retention In The Digital Age: How Long Is Long Enough? ( September 2004 )
  Philip L. Gordon of Littler Mendelson, P.C.

  The advent of the "paperless society" has been a boon for fastidious record keepers and the lazy alike. With storage capacity expanding to unfathomable dimensions and storage costs per bit of data approaching zero, the incentive to discard, at least at first blush, has been virtually eliminated. However, another trend, the rapid increase in the number of lawsuits, as well as the ever-present risk of government enforcement actions, provide ample justification for doing more than retaining indefinitely an undifferentiated mass of electronic documents.

• Records Retention: The Need for a Good Corporate Policy ( May 2003 )
  Kathryn S. Baltes of Miller Nash LLP

  We've heard about records retention and the trouble that shredding documents can bring. But are you aware that the law penalizes document modification as well? Take the Arthur Andersen case as an example. In August 2001, questions arose regarding Enron's accounting treatment of certain limited-partnership transactions.

• New Criminal Penalties for Unlawful Document Destruction ( August 2002 )
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, signed into law on July 30, 2002, creates two entirely new criminal statutes regarding document destruction—Sections 1519 and 1520 of the federal Criminal Code—and expands the scope of a pre-existing statutes, 18 USC 1512.

• Business Practice: Document Retention and Destruction: To Shred or Not To Shred ( March 2002 )
  William D. Kennedy and Edward C. Mengel of White and Williams LLP

  Document destruction in the immediate aftermath of a front-page financial collapse may raise eyebrows, but there are guidelines by which prudent people can safely and systematically purge dated documents.

• How Companies Can Reduce the Costs and Risks Associated with Electronic Discovery ( February 1999 )
  Ian C. Ballon of Glasser Legal Works

  This article discusses the legal concerns and considerations associated with electronic discovery.

• Emergency Repairs: Are you Destroying the Evidence ( June 1999 )
  Thomas E. Miller of Thomas E. Miller Law Office

  Very often property managers and board members are faced with having to make common area emergency repairs during .

• Spoliation of Evidence in Pennsylvania Courts ( June 1999 )
  Dugan, Brinkmann, Maginnis & Pace

  Recent State Court decisions adopt federal court balancing test. The loss or destruction of evidence, termed .

• Spoliation of E-Mail Evidence: Proposed Intranet Policies and a Framework for Analysis ( February 1999 )
  Ian C. Ballon of Glasser Legal Works

  Discusses how electronic discovery potentially imposes substantial burdens on large organizations and explains how companies run the risk of serious sanctions for failure to observe discovery rules.