The legal hold process is the heart of defensible eDiscovery. Cimplifi discusses best practices for communicating the legal hold here!

In their post titled (wait for it!) Know When to Hold Em: Communicating the Legal Hold (available here), Cimplifi discusses how the legal hold is the moment an organization transforms the “duty to preserve” into concrete action: identifying potentially relevant data, notifying custodians, and ensuring that responsive information is not altered or destroyed.

But issuing a legal hold is not as simple as sending a notification email and hoping for the best. With today’s sprawling data environments, hybrid workforces, and increasing reliance on cloud platforms and mobile devices, legal teams must adopt structured, thoughtful, and technologically supported processes to ensure that preservation is both effective and defensible.

So, what two things must a legal hold notice accomplish? What’s included in a defensible workflow for tracking custodian compliance? And how can you leverage technology to streamline legal hold administration? Find out here, it’s only one click! Don’t worry – we’ll hold it for you! 😉

So, what do you think? How is your organization managing legal holds? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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