Dig for legal victory - [it law]

As the legal profession braces itself for a torrent of credit-crunch inspired fraud cases, pressure is mounting for an end to the conspiracy of silence over electronically-stored information. Be counselled: when the tide of 'credit-crunch' lawsuits washes up on the shores of the UK's legal system, it will shake the profession to its pink- ribboned foundations. The evidence abounds, and the jury is very definitely in: in the UK, former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer predicts that there is "going to be litigation on a scale that we have not seen before". Already, a helpline set up by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) reports "hundreds of instances" of City of London fraud coming in by phone and by email.