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Regulators require companies to preserve and produce electronically stored information meaning the costs and risks associated with poor Information Governance and ineffective eDiscovery processes can be high when litigation or compliance issues emerge. With so much unstructured data in electronic storage containers (and backups) all in proprietary formats, it's a major problem to process, search and review information to decide what to keep and what to destroy, or to identify information and evidence quickly and accurately when the need arises.

In this issue:

  • Gartner research examining how discovery costs can be lowered substantially with the application of technology. It explains why and how legal and IT must cooperate for effective litigation preparedness.
  • 5 actionable strategies to radically improve the way you manage your information to reduce daily risk and storage costs and simplify eDiscovery and investigation processes.
I hope these provide useful insight for implementing the right systems, processes and technology to regain control of your enterprise content.

Eddie Sheehy
Chief Executive Officer
Nuix


  • Cooperation Is Key for Managing E-Discovery in 2010
  • Debra Logan
  • 11 March 2010
  • The days of playing "hide the ball" in discovery are coming to an end, as well as trying to win a case on mechanical "gotcha" issues, rather than the merits of the case. The courts are developing an awareness and a sophistication that requires litigants to request, preserve and produce electronically stored information in proportion to the gravity of the matter.
Key Findings

  • Cases in 2009 demonstrated that companies without clear, consistent and repeatable processes for the identification, preservation and collection of electronic documents, will be the subject of judicial sanctions (see Note 1).
  • Discovery costs can be lowered substantially with the application of technology, especially archiving, legal hold and collection software.
  • Effective litigation preparedness and response requires a strong working partnership between legal and IT.
Recommendations

  • Do not continue to rely on custodian-led collection unsupported by technology, undocumented and not supervised by counsel.
  • Ensure that defensible collection procedures are in place and that an expert supervises them and can defend them, if need be, in front of the judge.
  • Always include IT in the necessary step of suspending routine deletion of business records when litigation is reasonably anticipated.

Nuix Content

  • Nuix Insight Paper - Information Governance for Corporations
  • Eddie Sheehy
  • May 2010
  • Few enterprises have succeeded in implementing effective Information Governance and Enterprise Content Management practices. Defining the scope, organizing the effort and identifying the locations and formats of a corporation's data is a substantial challenge.

    This insight paper offers five actionable strategies to radically improve the way organizations manage their information to reduce daily risk, simplify eDiscovery and investigation processes and storage costs.
  • Achieve fast and flexible collection with the Nuix Collector Suite
    The Nuix Collector Suite provides a powerful, easy to use and forensically sound set of tools for identifying and collecting potentially responsive digital evidence for companies, law firms and litigation support professionals. With fast and flexible collection and preservation capabilities,the Nuix Collector Suite includes Nuix Collector for SharePoint, Nuix Collector for Networks and Nuix Collector Portable.

    These tools scan a variety of sources, such as laptops, desktops, MS SharePoint sites, enterprise file shares, common computer forensic file formats as well as networks accessible in Windows, to identify and selectively collect targeted electronically stored information (ESI). Read more about the Nuix Collector Suite.

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