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Proceed With Caution When Deleting Data
New York Law Journal

Because it's sometimes unclear to companies when the duty to preserve electronic data will arise, its deletion poses a real risk. A proposed amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(f) is intended to provide a safe harbor for firms that, through automatic document-deletion systems, unwittingly trash data that should be preserved in case of litigation. Attorneys John F. Baughman and H. Christopher Boehning consider how safe the safe harbor really is.
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Online Peers Stand Up for Craigslist in Lawsuit The National Law Journal Google, Amazon, AOL and Yahoo are helping defend online peer Craigslist against a lawsuit that would hold the Web site liable for discriminatory housing ads. The suit, filed by the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, argues that Craigslist has violated the Fair Housing Act by letting users post ads in which they discriminate in seeking tenants, asking, for instance, for a "gay Latino" or a "godly Christian male." Craigslist claims immunity under the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Visit the Tech Law Practice Center • SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED

Partner Disbarred for Stealing From Firm New York Law Journal A former Manhattan law firm partner who filed false expense reports for some $200,000 to pay his yacht club membership and credit card bills has been disbarred. Robert Pape, a former trusts and estates partner at Putney, Twombly, Hall & Hirson, charged personal expenses to his firm and to clients, frequently seeking reimbursement multiple times for the same item to the extent that the referee hearing the disciplinary case said that Pape "showed a brilliance in the way he expanded the double dip system."


Did Hilfiger Corp. Get Special Treatment From DOJ? Corporate Counsel Did Tommy Hilfiger Corp. get special treatment when the government failed to make public the nonprosecution agreement the company entered last summer with the U.S. Department of Justice? Corporate Counsel's research indicates that the government completed 14 deferred and nonprosecution agreements in the past 12 months, but only the Hilfiger agreement remained private. Now, the secret agreement is creating a problem for plaintiffs in a class action shareholders' suit against the retailer.