PREPARE FOR e-DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO AVOID DISASTROUS LEGAL SANCTIONS AND FINES

If your company was hit with a lawsuit, would you be prepared for an e-discovery request? For instance, does your company have formal e-discovery policies? Do you know what data to store and how long to store it? Does your company provide employees with e-discovery training?
When we surveyed 711 TechRepublic members about e-discovery, we found that many of their companies were ill prepared for e-discovery requests.
Without policies and procedures in place, you could be setting your company up for huge fines and sanctions.
Here’s an excerpt from the E-discovery Special Report, which demonstrates why IT leaders should know the ins and outs about e-discovery:
“…recent decisions in Federal courts, as well as changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, reflect a shift toward holding respondents — the providers of information requested during discovery –responsible to pay for producing ESI. This responsibility is based on the assumption that a reasonable IT manager understands the need for knowing where his or her organization’s information is kept, whether it should be accessible during discovery, how to provide an environment in which documents and other information can be easily placed and kept on ‘legal hold,’ and the how to implement and use the tools necessary to provide them on demand.”