Bloomberg Law
May 24, 2018, 9:20 PM UTC

Law Firm Avoids Email-Related Sanctions in Attorney Pay Suit

Michael Greene
Michael Greene
Reporter

Tuggle Duggins PA shouldn’t be sanctioned for failing to take steps to preserve emails that are potentially relevant to a lawsuit brought by a former partner, a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled May 22.

The law firm’s duty to preserve emails arose four weeks before it issued a litigation hold, Chief Business Court Judge James L. Gale, of the North Carolina Superior Court, said.

But sanctions aren’t warranted because there are no facts to suggest any potentially relevant emails were lost, he said.

The ruling takes up an issue that hadn’t yet directly been addressed by North Carolina courts—when ...

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