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by kjs3 39 days ago
Much of my experience with corporate counsel is one of 2 extremes: "keep everything"[1] or "keep nothing". Keep everything, because then you can't be caught out deleting something possibly relevant, which looks very, very bad in court. Keep nothing, because then opposing counsel can't catch you out only keeping things that make you look good in court.

[1] There's actually a subset of this, which includes "...until you are legally allowed to delete it, then delete everything". This is driven by regulation (e.g. SOX in the US).