August, 23, 2010
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SF&S wins sanctions against SanDisk Corporation for destruction of evidence. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pauley, J.) held that SanDisk Corporation had destroyed "potentially powerful evidence" and that SanDisk's expertise in the field of data storage exacerbated its spoliation.
June 2009
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Marjorie J. Peerce and Daniel V. Shapiro, "Look, But Don't Log-in: Personal Web-Based Accounts in Internal Investigations," Law Journal Newsletters. Marjorie J. Peerce and Daniel V. Shapiro, write: You are in-house counsel at a public company and you suspect an employee may be leaking inside information. You decide to conduct an internal investigation. A computer forensic analysis reveals that the employee has accessed a personal Web-based e-mail account from a company computer and that the login information (username and password) has been recovered from the computer's memory. Can you log in to that account and read the e-mail?
