Data Preservation and Legal Hold
Preserving Data Defensibly
Legal holds or litigation holds are a key part of eDiscovery as they involve the entire organization and happen far more frequently than other steps of the eDiscovery process, like data collection or review. Therefore, legal professionals need to have a good understanding of the technological and legal requirements that must be navigated to meet their preservation obligations.
Information Governance
Information Governance pertains to any program or system designed to get your electronic house in order for the purposes of mitigating risk and cost, and making wiser business decisions. Information governance is not a litigation tactic, but a program that should be in place from the initial creation of ESI through its final disposition. While it sounds like a straightforward program, there are many complications that make it difficult to actually make an information governance plan work in the face of litigation.
