Sentences with phrase «about evidence preservation»

Though engagement is a measure of final resort, issues about evidence preservation arise at the point counsel first picks up the phone.

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These tabletop exercises will often include members of the response team such as outside vendors who may need to do the forensic analysis or preservation of information and evidence necessary to analyze what happened and what to do about it going forward.

The duty of preservation is a foundational concept in our legal system that grows out of the common law concept of spoliation, which is more than 200 years old: if courts exist to make determinations about disputed facts, and if the trier of fact must make those determinations using the available evidence, then no litigant should be allowed to gain advantage in those determinations by destroying relevant evidence before the trier of fact can consider it.