I’ve been thinking and writing on cross-border investigations. Here’s my comment to LinkedIn contact Rob Robinson, who shared an article on law firm partners who after all these years STILL refuse to learn about eDiscovery and its huge implications to corporations and the practice of law — and the growing field of cross-border minefields investigations.
[I wrote] Thanks for sharing the article, Rob. It’s absolutely true. The gap is widening between the “I don’t have to know this stuff” and “this stuff is changing the legal industry, I’d better learn it.”
Thus far the partners have been insulated from eDiscovery fall-out because their corporate clients are also doing it the way they’ve always done. But thanks to the GC’s responsibility to control risk, GCs are growing more and more interested in eDiscovery and investigation technologies, some of them pretty sophisticated. Cross-border internal investigations are growing fast, and it behooves attorneys to keep up on the technologies that are making them cost-effective. And keeping the company from getting sued thanks to privacy laws. And protecting the teams from getting arrested. (It could happen.)