I have a friend who went through something like this. First off, depending upon the nature of the exact charges there are situations where if it appears you l

I have a friend who went through something like this. First off, depending upon the nature of the exact charges there are situations where if it appears you lied or hid or intentionally destroyed evidence the court can find against you and just assume the worst when punishing. So there is a reason to be honest. Second, if the plaintiff desires it, they can sue you and your employer both. Name you both in the same suit. It binds you together and drives you apart at the same time. Let the law suit hang for a while and many people would want to just quit and try to settle, your employer could end up suing you in that case, especially if you doing that damages or appears to damage them. Maybe worse, say the company has the data somewhere and you destroyed your computer to prevent searching, you look like a total liar. How it works is a trusted forensics guy that you hire, he copies all of your stuff. The lawyers hash out some agreements, your lawyers protect your interests but it's a discovery process that they are agreeing on. Think of it as search terms, they come up with some number of search terms related to the charges. Your lawyers are trying to protect your rights and limit the searches to what is alleged. its not supposed to be fishing. It's a game of sorts though, like a number of terms will be agreed to and then your lawyers want the other guys to waste them on bad searches. Then you pay your guy to search your data and report the findings to the court. He says he found x files with their copyright or that it looks like you formatted your drive the day after you got served or other things. And it's evidence in the case.