Between fast food, reality tv and jazz music, American innovations have surely made their mark on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. But U.S.-style litigation? The thorough document discovery and retention tactics that define U.S.-style litigation had never caught on beyond the country’s borders, and multinational corporations have had to play by a host of different rules depending on the forum.
Now, though, that paradigm is shifting. From Dubai to Beijing, more countries are adopting U.S.-style litigation. According to Tara Lee, partner and global chair of cross border litigation for DLA Piper, this change is a recent one, not even imaginable at the turn of the century.
