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Reading this article you can find out the very interesting point of view on current situation regarding sending e-mail within a company

Some years ago we spend a lot of time for sending faxes, normal paper lists etc. Nowadays all these activities take us olny a few minutes. Electronic communicatio is now very popular. the average corporate user sends and receives 140 emails a day—an average of one mail every 3.4 minutes, which equates to more than 17.5 million emails per year for an rganization with 500 employees.

This shift from paper-based communications to electronic messaging has had a significant impact on legal proceedings in recent years, and more and more companies are learning about e-discovery the hard way.

In this day and age, most organizations simply cannot afford to lose an email. They must have a way to find it or risk legal ramifications, not to mention losing valuable intellectual property not contained in any other location.

Electronic discovery, or “e-discovery,” refers to evidence in a lawsuit that deals with information in electronic form. Email communications, instant messages, chats, file attachments and website content are all examples of the types of data that can be requested for e-discovery. In fact, email is now included in about 75% of all e-discovery proceedings.

“With such a heavy reliance on electronic communications, organizations are facing greater responsibilities for how they handle emails.”

In the event that emails or instant messages are requested as evidence in a federal court case, organizations must know where their data is, how to retrieve it and how to meet data requests in a timely manner. In addition, a court can order a legal hold, which means that any previous purging practices are halted until the legal matter is settled. The organizations producing the emails must also be able to prove the authenticity of the communications in question (i.e. that they are tamperproof).

In this article you can find also an useful information for such company how to Prepare for E-Discovery with an Automated Archiving Solution, Expect Serious Ramifications and Best Practices Make Perfect.

And the finally motto: “There’s no point in having a plan if an organization isn’t going to follow it.”