WHEN EVIDENTIARY MATTERS CROSS ETHICAL BOUNDARIES HEATHER L. KING, JESSICA HALL JANICEK, & PAUL M. LEOPOLDt
528 I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 52 8 II. E S I .................................................................................................. 529 A. What is ESI? ........................................................................... B. The New FederalRules of Civil Procedure............................ 530 C. GroundbreakingFederalCase Law ....................................... 531. 1. Zubulake v. UBS W arburg LLC ....................................... 531 531 2. Zubulake I and III ............................................................. 532 3. Zubulake IV and V ............................................................ 533 D. ESI Considerations................................................................. 533 1. Model Orders.................................................................... 533 2. The Sedona Guidelines...................................................... 535 3. E-Discovery............................................ 537 a. Competency ................................................................ 538 b. Confidentiality ............................................................ 541 c. Candor ....................................................................... d. The Unknown Ethics... and Data ............................. 541 III. SPOLIATION AND THE DUTY TO PRESERVE .................................... 543 543 A. The Zubulake Guidelines........................................................ B. Pension Committee (Zubulake Revisited) ............................... 544 C. Texas Spoliation Rules and Sanctions .................................... 545 D. The Standardof Carefor Advising Clients About the Duty 547 to PreserveEvidence............................................................... 547 1. Texas State Courts ............................................................ 548 2. Texas Federal Courts........................................................ 550 IV. CONCLUSION ..................................................................................
t The authors wish to thank Greg B. Enos for his article "Cell Phone Towers and Cell Phone Transmissions"; M. Chad Gerke for his article "Ethical Issues of Getting Social Media into Evidence"; Joseph Indelicato, Jr., and Nina Indelicato for their article "Ethical Pitfalls of Social Media"; David Lopez for his article "Spoliation and Legal Malpractice"; Robert J. McEwan for his article "Ethical Issues and More in the Age of Electronic Communication"; Kristal Thomson for her article "Ethical Pitfalls for Family Law Practitioners"; and Peter S. Vogel for his article "Ethical Issues in Social Media."