Warning: Combine Process Methodology And Technology To Execute Litigation Holds

A rising awareness of the perils of eDiscovery has legal teams and executives clamoring to ensure that they and their organizations will not be the next to hit the headlines and pay huge fines for being unable to stop the systematic destruction of content. New legal regulations require businesses and government agencies to, at a minimum, implement litigation hold procedures to preserve information that may be relevant to litigation, even if that information is scheduled for destruction as part of routine retention policies and programs. Records managers, legal counsel, and IT managers must work with line-of-business owners to develop retention policies that not only spell out the life cycle of content from birth to destruction but also contain guidelines that stem destruction when necessary. Only then should IT deploy technology to automate the records management process.