Use case
In Chapter 15, our use case involved World Wide Widgets (WWW) and their sale of brake and accelerator parts to Toy O D'oh. As a result of the problems with both the brakes and accelerators in Toy O D'oh vehicles, WWW has been sued in ten US states and is facing investigations by federal authorities in the United States, provincial and central government agencies in Canada, and several government regulators in Europe and Asia. Additional litigation is expected in other US states, as well as several provinces in Canada. The Italian government has attributed one death to problems with the braking system and has launched a criminal investigation. WWW has retained multiple law firms in each of these jurisdictions to handle these matters. Each jurisdiction has different rules of evidence and requirements for producing documents or other evidence. Each law firm has been retained for its capabilities in various areas of law. While each matter will have much in common, the differences in...