Bloomberg Law
May 4, 2015, 1:03 PM UTC

BlackBerry Legal Counsel Talks eDiscovery

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

Sheila Pierce, director and legal counsel at BlackBerry, recently spoke about eDiscovery: Corporate clients don’t like storing irrelevant data because it costs them money, and on the other hand, outside counsel lean toward preserving more data because they have to appear in court and deal with the opposing side.

“There’s always a tension between the client wanting to control the cost and the law firm wanting to be responsible,” said Pierce, who spent nine years as a litigator at Bingham McCutchen, at a Huron Legal Institute webinar on April 30.

She added, “I used to get a little upset when the clients weren’t ...

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