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eDiscovery
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How to Avoid Enormous E-Discovery Fees
Organizations today create and store more than 90% of all information in an electronic format. If your organization faces litigation of any kind, it is vital that you comply with court-mandated e-discovery rules.
In Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC*, the court’s precedent-setting guidelines set down a litigant’s obligations for e-discovery.
The full spectrum of duties and responsibilities that affect your organization is wide-ranging and extensive. If you haven’t already, perhaps it’s time to consider what you need to know about meeting your e-discovery obligations:
- The extent of your duties and obligations for e-document preservation
- How to gather and manage electronic data for litigation in a timely manner
- Which documents you should retain or archive
- Who bears the cost for supplemental depositions should evidence be destroyed
- How to quickly, efficiently and affordably search and review electronic documents
- How to proactively archive information before you face litigation
- How to perform effective e-discovery that does not impose an excessive burden or cost on your organization.
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The very scope and number of e-documents an organization creates and archives grows exponentially with each passing day. In the Zubulake ruling, the courts determined that archiving and storing every document would not only be impossible, but would paralyze an organization, while skyrocketing expenses.
Yet, failure to preserve documents properly can result in legal penalties, including:
- Monetary fines
- Jury instructions that could prove detrimental to a litigant’s case
- Default judgments
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As a result, your organization will realize full compliance with e-discovery rules, along with:
- More cost-effective record keeping
- More thorough and effective searching and archiving
- Increased efficiency throughout your entire operation
- Greater productivity in every facet of your organization
- Consistent and uninterrupted focus on business and revenue-generating pursuits
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- No less than 90% of information is first created in digital format
- Corporations store at least 70% of records electronically
- No more than 30% of electronic information is ever printed to paper
- More than 9 billion email messages are sent each year
- Unlike document shredding, e-files are very seldom completely “deleted”
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- Realistic plan of action for managing information
- Retention procedures for electronic information generated or received
- Measures for addressing the creation, identification, retention, retrieval and disposition or destruction of information and records
- Policies for suspension of ordinary destruction practices
- Processes that comply with preservation obligations related to actual or anticipated litigation, government investigation or audit
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What’s more, the cost to a business for ineffective information and records management can be a staggering loss of revenue due to:
- Extensive down time away from business pursuits
- Personnel energies diverted to document search and recovery
- Duplication of efforts by multiple personnel
- Inconsistent, ineffective or even useless information gathering and archiving
- Extensive file storage and archive expense due to preservation of non-essential documentation and records
- Inadvertent deletion of critical data or inability to recover lost data
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