The former chair of Independent News & Media (INM) Leslie Buckley has acknowledged in legal correspondence that he is availing of directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance in the likely multimillion euro defence of his alleged involvement in a data breach action being taken by former INM executives Gavin O’Reilly and Karl Brophy. New filings also reveal that his advisors believe discovery will run to “hundreds of thousands of documents” and was “likely to take at least several months” just to collect before being reviewed for privilege, relevance, and other matters. Buckley is being sued by O’Reilly and Brophy along…

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