eDiscovery Best Practices in SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365 "From the Consulting Trenches" Not only do records stored on users devices and in SharePoint become relevant in legal and compliance related cases and incidents, but emails as well as even Lync conversations also fall into eDiscovery requests more and more every day. The new eDiscovery features and functionality in SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365's SharePoint Online provides improved methods to help protect your organization as well as its team members
Well, by far (>70% in many cases) the largest component is the cost of legal review by your external counsel...The fewer documents you have in the eDiscovery process, the better off you are in terms of costs
What we have seen in many cases is that the bill one can expect to receive for the legal review from an external law firm is often proportional with the amount of documents that are handed over in an eDiscovery process
Bringing eDiscovery in-house is the way to go...In February 2009, I lead a LegalTech New York educational track titled, “Bringing eDiscovery In-House”
1 Comment - Costs and risks are implicit, accounted for in the IGRM. How the Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM) Complements ARMA International’s Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP®) Also related to this topic, this ABA article describes how an organization’s team of in-house attorneys, lead outside counsel, RIM, and IT professionals can be instrumental in guiding discussions with business management to achieve better eDiscovery by implementing a unified Information Governance (IG) program
In today’s evolving workplace each department or ‘business unit’ is treated as its own individual business, with its own cost centre, overheads and profit targets
In order to make in-house eDiscovery defensible in court, one must prove that the file has not been modified since it was collected from a particular location