The first line of defence and a great component of an corporation’s Governance, Risk and Compliance infrastructure is a solid set of policies, processes and protocols.
Think about the state of your policies ahead of time, update them and inform everyone about them. The outcome will always be better when you are asked to demonstrate to a court how you responded to the discovery demands!
Posted by Dominic Jaar
Tags: E-Discovery, policy, risk
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As the remarkable new case Swofford v. Eslinger suggests, all enterprises have incentive to have policies that provide for generous, long-term of email. See argument: http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/11/records-policy.html –Ben
Thanks for the link Ben – we’re bound to see more of these cases!