Without a clear, strategic litigation readiness and response plan, you run more than the risk of scrambling in a panic to react to a threat. You risk losing evidence in that mad rush, resulting in monetary and evidentiary spoliation sanctions that can cripple…
The more data you have, the higher your ediscovery costs. Therefore, the first step to driving down the cost of ediscovery is simply reducing the amount of data you have to manage. Data reduction requires consideration of the entire lifecycle of data, beginning with a plan for…
Seventh in a series of best practices for litigation readiness In business, as in life, security drives confidence, and confidence drives innovation, productivity, and excellence. Knowing that your organization is prepared for litigation gives you and your employees a...
Fifth in a series of best practices for litigation readiness.The legal department may spearhead the company’s litigation response strategy, but success is dependant upon the cooperation of custodians. Every potential data custodian at your organization — from the...
Fourth in a series of best practices for litigation readinessLitigation readiness may originate in the legal department, but it can’t end there. Everyone department within your organization must be prepared to respond to litigation in a cohesive manner in order to...
Why you need a litigation response plan and where to begin Readiness is “the state of being fully prepared for something.” Litigation readiness is the state of being fully prepared with a repeatable, defensible plan for how to respond to the initiation of a lawsuit or...
Key facts about electronically stored information and ediscovery ESI: you’ve seen the acronym. But what exactly qualifies as ESI? And how do you manage it properly to ensure you meet your ediscovery, compliance and litigation response obligations? Electronically...
Step 5 Choose for Your Needs It’s not enough to know what an “ideal” ediscovery process looks like; you need to map out a specific approach that will work for the type and amount of litigation your business deals with and for the forms and volume of data you generate....
As data volumes continue to explode, so does the need to control the rising costs — and security vulnerabilities — of managing data that must be preserved, collected and reviewed.
The court ordered issue preclusion and costs as severe sanctions against a party that engaged in continuous discovery misconduct, including failing to take reasonable steps to preserve evidence stored on a third-party server and making innumerable excuses for the failure to produce documents. The court also sanctioned the party’s counsel for his failure to check his client’s behavior and for taking steps that inappropriately lengthened the proceedings.