Archiving and storing e-mails – The legal and practical issues

This article will outline the problems faced by one company in relation to the destruction of e-mail communications in a recent case in the United States, and then set out some of the legal and practical issues that lawyers and their clients should consider if they have reached the conclusion that they ought to buy one of the products that began to appear on the market from 2000 that help with the storage of e-mails in particular, although the issue is wider than just e-mail communications.