Case Study: Finding the Evidence Hidden in Slack Data
Logikcull’s new case study on Slack discovery details how litigators are able to turn Slack data into an opportunity and uncover evidence essential to their cases.
David Slarskey knows where to look to find the communications that can win a case. “It used to be Bloomberg Terminals where you’d discover the details people didn’t want on the record,” the New-York-based litigator says. “Today, that information is in emerging communication sources, like Slack.”
As a tech-savvy lawyer, Slarskey uses his knowledge of emerging data types, such as Slack data, to take on larger, more flat-footed firms—and win.
Slack data is the next discovery frontier. Millions of businesspeople use Slack and similar messaging platforms every day, which means workplace IMs are becoming critical evidence in major lawsuits across the country—and attorneys need to get on board, or risk missing out on half the conversation.
“I think you’re really doing a disservice to your clients if you’re limiting yourself to emails,” says Slarskey. “We have an obligation as lawyers to stay abreast and one step ahead,” he explains, “because that’s where claims are won and lost: on the communication record.”
In 2017, Slarskey put his Slack-savvy to work when he signed on to represent a small tech company after a failed merger transaction. “Essentially, the agreement went sideways and dissolved,” Slarskey explains. “Our client claimed that the larger, acquiring company had abused the due diligence process—that they got under the hood, looked at all the code and used access to various databases to download confidential information.” When the larger company walked away from the term sheet, after allegedly extracting all the value they would have gotten from the merger without actually going through with the deal, the smaller company turned to Slarskey—and Slarskey turned to the Slack data.
That data proved essential to obtaining a favorable settlement.
Logikcull’s new case study on Slack discovery details how, with the right tools, litigators like Slarskey are able to turn Slack data from a burden into an opportunity and uncover evidence essential to their cases. Download the case study here.
