As law firms begin planning for office returns, partners Tess Blair and Tara Lawler and associate William Childress wrote an article for The Legal Intelligencer focusing on the basics of the preservation and collection of records, the central principle of proportionality, and the importance of cooperation during discovery. “Some lawyers may not think much about preserving records until discovery begins in earnest, but this is an instance where the basics undergird the defensibility and success of the entire discovery process,” they write.