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Preparing for Litigation Before it Happens: eDiscovery Best Practices

Editor’s Note: Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker, and writer in the field of computerized litigation support systems.  He has also been a great addition to our webinar program, participating with me on several recent webinars.  Tom has also written several terrific informational overview series for CloudNine, including eDiscovery and the GDPR: Ready or Not, Here it Comes (which we covered as a webcast), Understanding eDiscovery in Criminal Cases (which we also covered as a webcast), ALSP – Not Just Your Daddy’s LPO, Why Is TAR Like a Bag of M&M’s?, eDiscovery for the Rest of Us (which we also covered as a webcast) and Litigate or Settle? Info You Need to Make Case Decisions (which is our next scheduled webcast on August 29th).  Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding pre-litigation considerations titled Preparing for Litigation Before it Happens that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog.  Enjoy! – Doug

Tom’s overview is split into seven(!) parts, so we’ll cover each part separately.  Here’s the first part.

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Introduction

Information Governance (IG) has always been part of the eDiscovery landscape but not always a large part. Although it appears on one of the first Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) charts it was not discussed in any of the standards models and was typically not included in any detailed EDRM discussion.  Here is the early EDRM model chart from 2009 that became the initial standard – note how it wasn’t even called “Information Governance” back then, it was called “Information Management”.

IG was originally important for reducing the population of potentially responsive electronically stored information (ESI) that might be subject to litigation by helping organizations adopt best practices for keeping their information “house in order”.  But now with an increased concentration on the two-fold concerns of privacy and security, IG has become more important.  Good IG best practices and technologies can allow organizations to conduct data discovery on their organizations data, keep it secure, protect privacy and help lower potential litigation costs by archiving or disposing of records in a repeatable defensible manner.

We’ll explore the implementation of Information Governance best practices to help organizations better prepare for litigation before it happens, as follows:

  1. What is Information Governance?
  2. General Principles for Information Governance
  3. Who Uses Information Governance?
  4. Basic Information Governance Solutions
  5. One Reason Why Information Governance is Not More Popular
  6. Concluding Remarks

We’ll publish Part 2 – What is Information Governance? – on Wednesday.

So, what do you think?  Does your organization have a plan for preparing for litigation before it happens?  As always, please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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