Video | Tips for Managing the Preservation of Mobile Device Data
Implementing legal holds quickly and effectively is key to maintaining defensibility during litigation and investigations. When a matter involves U.S. law, parties have a duty to preserve relevant information once litigation...more
Digital collaboration is moving fast, and no one knows this better than Microsoft Teams. Launched in 2017 and currently sitting at 270 million users, Teams has quickly become the hub for workplace collaboration in thousands...more
Short, often informal messages have become an increasingly prevalent form of business communication. Whether by sending a simple text message or using a communication application like WhatsApp, Slack, or MS Teams, employees...more
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been about 27 months since most office workers started working remotely full-time—and probably only slightly less time that we’ve been wondering about what the “return to the office” would...more
Microsoft Teams was one of the fastest-growing apps of the pandemic and currently has 250 million daily active users — a jump from 75 million in 2021. Communications within Teams allow users to collaborate through chat...more
E-Discovery is an ever-changing field. There’s always new technology cropping up—whether it’s a means of communication that legal teams need to account for or a new software solution that promises to change how e-discovery...more
Corporate counsel often shoulder the burden of managing the entire Legal Hold process for their organization. That means on top of everything else, they must issue, execute and ensure compliance with required legal holds...more
An investment management company was recently hit with $200 million in fines for failing to track employees’ use of personal messaging apps, which resulted in the loss of communications that were subject to regulatory...more
To better understand how technology continues to affect the legal industry, you just have to look at case law and the resulting court rulings, particularly in regards to eDiscovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure...more
“You gotta know when to hold ‘em, and know when to fold ‘em.” These famous lyrics don’t just offer sound advice for card players. They give advice that you, as a legal or IT professional managing eDiscovery, should also...more
Data retention policies are definitely a topic of discussion among IT departments, but they should also be top of mind for legal departments as well. In fact, legal teams and IT should be communicating regularly about how...more
When it comes to a pending litigation, the duty to preserve electronic data is clearly laid out in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)... But when it comes to the actual process of letting custodians know they need...more
If your organization uses Slack for business communications, how are you preserving Slack data for potential litigation? Until this year, there was only one way to guarantee the preservation of Slack data: by collecting it...more
How much data is your organization obligated to preserve for ediscovery in a pending or anticipated litigation matter? What steps should you take to preserve that data?...more
Placing defensible legal holds on Slack data has always required collecting the data to an external repository to preserve it while maintaining information governance policies, until now. Slack has added the ability to create...more
Businesses today are increasingly powered by best-of-breed cloud apps, meaning it’s no longer a matter of whether you should update your retention and legal hold policies accordingly, but when and how. In this session,...more
2020 forced millions of employers to adapt their business models to allow employees to work from home and it looks as if this trend will continue indefinitely for many employers. With this in mind, employers should be aware...more
In 2003 Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote “once a party reasonably anticipates litigation, it must suspend its routine document retention/destruction policy and put in place a 'litigation hold' to ensure the preservation of...more
There has been a lot of discussion around In-Place Preservation (IPP) over the past few years, but many in the legal industry are still unsure of its potential for eDiscovery, data privacy, and compliance. A good first...more
Many questions arise during the discovery process: What type of data do parties need to preserve? How should they obtain, review, and disclose it? Are third-party subpoenas necessary? These are just a few things parties need...more
E-discovery is an important aspect of litigation. Well-established data gathering protocols and workflow procedures pertaining to electronic data are important. Meticulous record-keeping, workflow procedures, and processes...more
Last year about this time, the NLRB changed the standard for reviewing handbook rules. The new standard takes into consideration the fact there are many other interests other than the NLRA at play in a workplace, and seems to...more
Notifying potential custodians and implementing a litigation hold plan are both very important steps at the very beginning of a lawsuit. But often neglected is what to do with the preserved information once the need to keep...more
A “litigation hold plan” guides an organization in carrying out its evidence preservation obligations. Many factors come into play when the need to preserve records is triggered, and each organization has unique systems,...more
When it comes to producing documents in employment litigation, the deck is usually stacked in favor of the employee. Except in those unusual circumstances when the employee is squirreling away documents in an effort to build...more