The Press of Atlantic City reports that email is now a leading source of evidence in divorce cases:
"The spouse will always have the e-mails and instant messages," said divorce attorney Carol Goloff , who has offices in Northfield and Upper Township. "I have more than a dozen cases where we have the actual transcripts of the online conversation."
When matrimonial bliss goes bust, attorneys are looking to technology - from laptops to BlackBerrys to E-ZPass - for evidence to build their cases. This new way of collecting information is called electronic discovery, or e-discovery, and it's changing the way law firms do business.
"As a trend, it's been the biggest development in civil litigation in decades," said attorney John Coughlin, of the law firm Duane Morris in Princeton.
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