In an age of globalization where companies and business defy borders, it often can be difficult to delineate where one country begins and another starts. But borders still define themselves in the laws and business cultures of each land, which oftentimes manifest as roadblocks to successful collaborations, or pitfalls for many multinational organizations. And nowhere is this problem more acute than in e-discovery and subsequent information governance processes between the top two largest economies in the world.
E-discovery is an area where the U.S. and China are at polar opposites. After all, “China does not formally allow discovery of information relevant to litigation,” Kate Chan, regional managing director of Kroll Ontrack’s legal technologies unit in Asia, explained in the company’s “E-discovery in China: Traditions, Rules and Customs You Need to Know” webinar.
