E-Discovery Ensures Evidence Can't Hide

If you think you can hide evidence in the deep recesses of your computer system, you might want to talk to Jim Hennenhoefer.

The San Diego area family law attorney is one of many in his field turning to "e-discovery," an emerging discipline that helps investigators locate just about anything tucked away in electronic files - text, images, appointments, databases, Web sites and more.

E-mail Discovery Saves Construction Firm Money

When your company is involved in nine or 10 lawsuits a year, the lack of an effective e-mail discovery system can easily cost you thousands of dollars, John Buraczyk says, from personal experience.

Software Minimizes Risks Related to eDiscovery

Custodian Collector Option provides single solution to rapidly search, retrieve, preserve, and assess critical content owned by data custodians with potentially relevant electronically stored information. It can scan file shares, laptops, and desktops.

Does Your Firm Have an Electronic Communications Policy?

As e-mail has become the primary method of communication in corporate workplaces, employers have increasingly adopted electronic communications policies (ECPs) in an effort to protect against the perils of the e-mail medium, among them, the potential for diminished employee productivity and the risk of e-mail content that may subject the employer to legal exposure. A number of recent decisions demonstrate that ECPs are crucial for another reason -- protecting the employer's interests in litigation with a current or former employee.

Going Through E-discovery is Not Easy

Electronic discovery - sorting through the huge and growing amounts of electronically stored information (ESI) that most organizations possess - is not easy. However, it is becoming a fact of life for most organizations. In a study that we are conducting for Mimosa Systems - a leading vendor of archiving and e-discovery solutions - we are finding that e-discovery is quite common: 84% of organizations surveyed have been required to produce ESI for litigation during the past 24 months.

Storage Prepares for Court

The legal and storage worlds will come together in New York City this week, as vendors unveil a plethora of products around content monitoring, CDP, and software as a service (SaaS) at the LegalTech show.

As CIOs and IT managers struggle with the storage impact of the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and an ever more litigious corporate landscape, vendors are eyeing new opportunities.