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Your company has been hit by a lawsuit. Do you know the whereabouts of all its electronically stored information?
Lawsuits are a fact of life for organizations today. Recent surveys show that the average U.S. company faces 305 suits at any one time; that number jumps to 556 for companies with $1 billion or more in revenue.
E-discovery appliances find crucial documents
01/30/07
With each lawsuit comes the obligation for discovery -- production of evidence for presentation to the other side in a legal dispute. In the past, this evidence consisted primarily of paper records, such as contracts, bills of sale, printed correspondence and so on. However, with the rise of the New Data Center, 95% of all business communications now are created and stored electronically. That places the focus on e-discovery: finding and managing electronically stored information (ESI).
"It makes sense," says Gregg Davis, CIO at Webcor Builders, a construction firm in San Mateo, Calif. "Before five years ago, we never allowed change orders or changes in price or scope to happen through e-mail; everything was signed and faxed and kept on paper. But now, everything we do is e-mail. It's our primary tool for business documentation. Now 90% of everything we do here is done electronically."
That puts a heavy burden on IT, says Browning Marean, partner at DLA Piper, a global law firm. "If it's digital and it's relevant, it's discoverable. So it all has to be found, preserved and examined," he says. "And IT plays a key role in that because it is the keeper of the information -- it knows where and how information is stored, and IT is the one that has to find and present it."

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Comments (2)
legal e-records By wagonhitch5@yahoo.com on May 26, 2008, 3:11 pmE-discovery reflects the natural collision of technology and legal practice. As an enterprise creates an ever-growing mountain of records, adversaries of course...
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e-discoveryBy Data Miner on March 1, 2009, 10:13 pmeventually economics will prevail. Only worry is piercing the defenses of law firms who have managed to keep discovery frozen in stone age.
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