The damages portion of Alex Jones’s Texas defamation trial concluded Aug. 5 with the jury awarding the parents of one of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims over $45 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
But what may be more damaging to Jones and his lead Texas attorney, Andino Reynal, is the several hundred gigabytes of material mistakenly sent to Mark Bankston, the lawyer for the parents, in the days before trial.
No matter the sophistication level of a firm or lawyer, inadvertent disclosures of protected information can happen, particularly with the growing number of electronically stored data produced ...
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