4 June 2012 – The events surrounding the troubled News Corporation media empire, under investigation for the illegal seizure of electronic evidence, are seemingly never-ending. The Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch is chairman of the New York-based parent company, News Corporation, and as a U.S. based company with subsidiaries abroad, the litigation exposure for the company is vast. News International, a U.K. subsidiary of News Corporation, shut down one of their oldest running publications, The News of the World, in July last year amid the monumental phone hacking scandal known as Hackgate. Although the paper was dissolved, allegations beginning as early as 2002 detail unethical media practices, email/phone (voicemail)/text hacking, police bribery, and the recent Leveson inquiry. This firestorm continues to plague the company and has created one of the most complex legal debacles of the modern era.

A myriad of reasons are responsible for these legal complexities.  Allison Walton  of Clearwell Systems looks at the events from an e-discovery perspective (click here).