Case Study: Intellectual Property, Electronic Discovery and Business Process
The general counsel of a leading enterprise software company was concerned about likely challenges to its intellectual property and the company's ability to respond to related discovery requests quickly and cost-effectively, and with minimal disruption of day-to-day business processes.
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