As an organization develops, implements and improves its  business continuity and resilience strategies, more attention is being given to regulatory driven compliance requirements.

There is also a concern to be addressed over the current political environment and the shift in the compliance landscape and compliance enforcement for which organizations need to be prepared.

Such a scenario exists over the growing emphasis of compliance requirements focused on the field of e-discovery.

Legal firms are certainly seeing the same dynamics and as a result, a new legal organization officially was formed and called “The Organization of Legal Professionals.”   The goal of this new group (OLP) is to promote standards and certification for e-discovery professionals and providers and ultimately “…provide the legal community with a means of assuring its clients that its e-discovery professionals possess the requisite level of competence and understanding of e-discovery principles.”

You can read more about this in an article written by Robert J. Ambrogi that was posted on the legal.com blog watch by clicking here.

Lora Bentley, another one of our favorite bloggers, has recently focused her writing skills in an article published by IT BusinessEdge.  In that article she addresses the recent request by The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to be exempt from the Federal Trade Commission’s Red Flag Rules.

Read this article to understand more about this important issue.

If your organization thinks that it is prepared to survive an e-discovery request, perhaps those risk managers working on their business continuity and contingency plans should read more articles like the one we have chosen in this blog posting.

Mr. Craig Ball is a trial lawyer and computer forensics/EDD special master as well as a writer for the Law Technology News division of Law.com.   We are asking you to read his article on the subject of e-discovery because we believe it addresses several areas of the legal hold process that require more awareness than we have seen presented in previous stories about this topic.