Q: The investigation into President Donald Trump’s tax filings is an enormous endeavor due to the sheer quantity of monetary knowledge and paperwork that have to be reviewed. Now that these paperwork are in prosecutors’ palms, what may that overview course of appear like?
Bobby Malhotra, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP: The crew of prosecutors might be making an attempt to unravel mounds of complicated info and knowledge. Step one within the course of might entail loading all of the collected knowledge and paperwork right into a single, searchable and safe Net-based repository, which is able to enable entry as wanted for all counsel, employees and consultants/consultants, topic to any particular safety and confidentiality necessities. Many such repositories even have coding, outlining and/or truth and authorized challenge organizing and annotation capabilities, which could be helpful in constructing a trial theme technique, in addition to sharing content material — and given the alleged collaboration right here between prosecutor on the state and native stage, an internet repository could also be notably helpful in coordinating efforts amongst attorneys in a number of places of work as they sift by the proof.