If lawyers viewed the dearth of Delaware Court of Chancery electronic discovery rulings as evidence of the court’s lack of concern about e-discovery battles, a spate of recent rulings and opinions from the court may have dispelled any false comfort.
The court issued two letter rulings and two opinions between May 18 and June 2 squarely addressing e-discovery issues. Lawyers say the decisions flesh out the Chancery’s sparse e-discovery case law, which was previously tackled by only a handful of cases since 2002. Given the court’s role as judiciary for the array of U.S. companies chartered in Delaware, the changes are likely to have an outsized effect on corporate practitioners, lawyers who practice in the state say.
