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.

The topic of e-discovery has certainly been mentioned in this blog before.  However, the importance of e-discovery continues to grow and, in an article by Peter S. Vogel of the Government Technology publication, it is clearly shown of the need to have your organization’s IT officer revisit this important topic. 

The objective of the article is to show that IT professionals today need to understand the Law of Evidence and Rules of Civil Procedures as much as they do the server technology and storage area networks they manage. 

Basic information about e-discovery is provided, reviewed and presented in a straightforward manner in this article.   

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Risk managers attempting to protect their organizations from potential liabilities under e-Discovery laws must consider the additional challenges when data is stored outside of the United States.

In this article by Brett Tarr as published in Legal Week, many security and privacy rights of individuals as associated with e-Discovery are revealed along with summary discussions of the issues surrounding each area of human resource and e-Discovery law.  Of particular concern are those organizations who have employees both in and outside of the United States.  If your organization is currently faced with this situation, then we suggest reading this article and adding it to your library of reference materials on the topic of e-Discovery.