A legal hold, also known as a litigation hold, is the process organizations use to inform relevant parties (custodians) that they must preserve their data for anticipated litigation. The duty to preserve evidence can be court-ordered or self-initiated for internal investigations, breach of contract...
Electronically stored information (ESI) is data that is created, altered, communicated and stored in digital form. The term itself was legally defined in 2006 following revisions made to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) to help with electronic discovery (e-discovery) and litigation pert...
A legal hold is placed on data to prevent it from being deleted pursuant to the company’s involvement in current or imminent litigation or criminal cases. Often a legal hold will come into play following a “protection order” from a court or when there is an expectation of potential legal...
A litigation hold -- also known aslegal hold,preservation orderorhold order-- is an internal process that an organization undergoes to preserve all data that might relate to a legal action involving the organization. A litigation hold temporary suspends the normalretention policiesapplicable to data ...
Preservation is the process of keeping physical items and electronically stored information (ESI) intact for discovery during litigation. To preserve potential evidence, parties must protect that information from being destroyed, deleted, lost, or altered in any way. ...
What Is a Legal Hold? A legal hold, also known as a litigation hold, is the process by which organizations preserve potentially relevant information when litigation is pending or reasonably anticipated. By issuing a legal hold, organizations notify custodians about their duty not to delete ESI or...
it must suspend its routine document retention/destruction policy and put in place a 'litigation hold' to ensure the preservation of relevant documents." This highlighted the importance of digital documents in the modern legal context and set the wheels in motion for the preservation of ESI to b...
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Electronic discovery(also known as e-discovery, ediscovery, eDiscovery, or e-Discovery)is theelectronicaspect of identifying, collecting and producing electronically stored information(ESI)in response to a request for production in a law suit or investigation.ESI includes, but is not limited to, em...
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