I could hear the frustration in her voice. “We keep going back and forth with the plaintiff’s lawyer. I don’t understand what he wants. Can you help us?”

Defense counsel was trying to satisfy an opponent bent on getting e-mail in “native file format.” With each disk produced, the plaintiff’s lawyer demanded, “Where’s the e-mail?” Now he was rattling the sanctions saber. Poring over copies of what she’d produced, defense counsel saw the e-mail. “Why can’t he see it?”