eDiscovery Processes And Procedures: The Information Collection Steps - Part I Of II

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By Jerome M Wendt DCIG, LLC

eDiscovery is a focus in numerous DCIG blog entries. DCIG analysts have previously examined what laws are prompting the need for companies to perform eDiscoveries, keys to selecting the right eDiscovery solution and why recent Wall Street scandals foretell the need for companies to prepare for expanded eDiscovery requirements going forward as more government regulations seem almost certain to emerge. But an eDiscovery request is not a task that a company necessarily needs to dread. Rather, by establishing and putting in place best practices and procedures now, an organization can take much of the uncertainty out of an eDiscovery request and even use the looming threat of eDiscovery requests as motivation to lower an organization's cost of performing eDiscoveries.

A natural inclination of many organizations when first presented with a legal eDiscovery request is to quickly comply with the inquiry and seek to exonerate itself from any allegations of wrong doing. However if an eDiscovery occurs without an organization first having previously established internal and agreed-upon processes in place and then following them, an eDiscovery request ends up turning into a fire drill and leaves the company with no time to assess the information it has gathered. To help prevent this from occurring, here are some steps that an organization can take now to ensure it is appropriately prepared to respond to an eDiscovery request in the most efficient and effective ways possible.

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