Global corporate ethics are a largely untapped major market for e-discovery technology, Microsoft Deputy General Counsel John Frank said in his keynote speech, the first at this year’s LegalTech New York.
It was a local government official’s request for a bribe that inspired a Tunisian fruit cart owner to set himself afire last year, leading to the still active Arab Spring of people’s revolutions, and yet there remain many Western companies, such as Alcatel-Lucent and Siemens, that have been caught engaging in overseas bribery as a course of business, Frank observed.
