Handling Foreign Plaintiffs ’ Requests For Access to U . S . Discovery

I t is increasingly common for companies to be subject to lawsuits in multiple countries involving similar underlying facts, brought by different plaintiffs. For example, companies may be alleged to have engaged in malfeasance abroad, and subject to lawsuits in both the United States by a U.S.-based plaintiff and the country in which the alleged conduct occurred by a plaintiff in that country. One aspect of such multinational litigation is the impact that discovery Litigation A N E W Y O R K L A W J O U R N A L S P E C I A L S E C T I O N