In an article written by Greg Lawn for Computerworld magazine, the timely topic of e-discovery was addressed from a viewpoint of suggesting what to do to avoid a potential e-discovery disaster.  Because so many companies are now exposed to more regulations and compliance issues than ever before, every company should have an awareness of this issue as a regular agenda item in management meetings.

While the processes to follow do not have to be overly complicated, those processes should reflect a best practices approach when being implemented into an organization.  Greg Lawn’s articles attempts to do that by listing the following major best practices to help an organization avoid such a disaster scenario:  (1) Talk to your company’s legal department regularly about e-discovery, (2) Make your information-handling practices routine and consistent, (3) Keep an audit trail of your activities, (4) Know who had the data under legal hold request and when, (5) Understand what spoliation is, (6) Be ready to preserve all data, and (7) Know what have and what you don’t have.

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