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Employers Have An Obligation To Provide Meaningful Direction To Employees In Email Searches, But Employers Can’t Be Compelled To Recover Company Emails Stored On Personal Accounts Of Employees

By Douglas G.A. Johnston on February 25, 2016
Posted in e-Discovery, Information Management, Workplace Privacy

A recent case from the Northern District of California raises the importance of actively engaging with employees to coordinate the search for documents and electronically-stored information to comply with the employer’s discovery obligations. At the same time, the Court ruled that an employer cannot be compelled to produce business-related emails from the personal email accounts…

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