Ediscovery,
Civil Procedure
May 14, 2026
The OpenAI trial and the end of 'informal' communications
The OpenAI litigation is becoming a public demonstration of how modern discovery works. Executives separate "official" communications from informal ones; courts increasingly do not.
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The most important evidence in the dispute between Elon Musk and OpenAI is not a contract, a board resolution or a corporate charter. It is a handwritten journal.
As reported by the Daily Journal, lawyers in federal court in Oakland have spent days walkin...
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