Article description - E-Discovery: Are You Ready?

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Article name: E-Discovery: Are You Ready?

I've blogged about e-discovery in aspects of e-mails. Now I want to present you a summary of the article which wants us to think if we are ready to e-discovery and what we need to do to be ready. After analyzing different aspects of e-discovery we have to think for a while about this.

E-discovery requires legal, constitutional, political, security and personal privacy issues.
We have to consider following issues:

The Role of Management:
First, management should consider creating an e-discovery team comprised of legal, records information management (RIM), information technology (IT) and security personnel. It’s especially important to include RIM professionals who can identify potentially costly, time consuming errors that could impact any pending discovery activities.

The Role of the E-Discovery Team:
If litigation occurs, the e-discovery team will be ready to handle the activities needed to preserve electronically stored information (ESI) and physical documents.

Beyond Litigation:
The e-discovery team should create and distribute a records retention policy to all employees and test employees on their knowledge of records retention.

Be Proactive!
E-discovery preparedness enables organizations to reduce the cost and risk of e-discovery while driving real efficiency benefits to the day-to-day operation of the organization through the ability to find and share information quickly.


Finally we have to remember that it is a systematic, organized approach to developing policies and procedures to establish accountability within the organization and credibility with the courts.