"A federal judge is taking Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to task for
failing to preserve contemporaneous interview notes in an investigation
that found no wrongdoing by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in a lane closing scandal In a decision
(PDF) on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton of Newark said
the law firm took an “unorthodox approach” by overwriting lawyers’
electronic interview notes to produce an edited, final version.. . . .“Although [Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher] did not delete or shred
documents,” Wigenton wrote, “the process of overwriting their interview
notes and drafts of the summaries had the same effect. This was a clever
tactic, but when public investigations are involved, straightforward
lawyering is superior to calculated strategy. The taxpayers of the state
of New Jersey paid GDC millions of dollars to conduct a transparent and
thorough investigation. What they got instead was opacity and
gamesmanship. They deserve better.”" More.
Originally posted in ABA Journal News by Debra Cassens Weiss, Dec. 17, 2015
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