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Enron's demise in civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts included a mountain of paper documents and emails. But a similar set of circumstances would create far more headaches today. "Employees in 2011 have many fewer paper documents than they did 10 years ago, and the Enron e-documents were largely on internal servers, desktops and laptops," says Rachel Womack, a data security and electronic discovery expert at Stroz Friedberg who was involved in Enron-related litigation. "If the same scenario happened today, those documents likely would be on employee cell phones, iPads, external memory drives and in ‘the cloud.' Important emails could be on private Google, Yahoo or other accounts. It is important for a company to put someone in charge of documents and for courts to have uniform e-material rules for all parties." For more information, contact Robert Tharp at 800-559-4534 or robert@androvett.com.