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New Release: Arkfeld?s Best Practices Guide for Litigation Readiness and Hold

By Michael Arkfeld

New Release: Arkfeld?s Best Practices Guide for Litigation Readiness and Hold provides strategic guidance and recommendations to legal professionals in preparing for and implementing a ?litigation hold.? This Guide covers the components of a litigation readiness plan to ensure that your client can timely identify, preserve, collect, process and review electronic data for disclosure. Such a proactive approach will contribute to your success by properly identifying and preserving ESI once a triggering event occurs. In addition, an important section entitled Court Directives, Duties and Tasks, derived from case law, highlight the litigation hold obligations for disclosing parties.

Contents include:

  * Litigation Readiness Plan Components

* How to Recognize ?Triggering? Events

* How to Formulate a Litigation Hold Strategy

* Checklist for IT Systems and ESI Type, Storage, and Locations

* Litigation Hold Court Directives, Duties, and Tasks

Full post as published by Electronic Discovery & Evidence on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).