Civil Litigation

Assignment: Draft a letter to the client to ensure preservation of evidence. Instructions: You are working as a paralegal for the law firm that represents Gayle Stuart Trucking, Inc. The trucking company is a small company and does not have its own in-house legal department but has the law firm on retainer for legal issues. After reading about the Arkansas Bus Collision Case in the news, your supervising attorney, Michelle Garcia, has sent you the memorandum below asking you to write a letter from her to Jane Anderson, the President of Gayle Stuart Trucking, Inc., on the duty to preserve electronic data with anticipated litigation. This is also called a spoliation letter to avoid spoliation or loss of relevant evidence. For the assignment, draft a letter to the client using appropriate business letter format. You can use the attached business correspondence template.