Retention Policy Roundtable

This innovative survey may answer a lot of questions, and be very useful!

You can see the retention policies of various organizations here. If you add your own experience, you get a summary of the findings.

 Martin.

Make sure you are at home!

I don’t know what happened to this post. i think it just disappeared into thin air!

This is what it was supposed to say:

During the course of discovery of electronic evidence, typically collection of the data is entrusted to a few key people in conjunction with consultants and attorneys.

Often we find though, that the key IT people, especially those on the ground performing the collection of data, are entrusted to provide the data requested. Trouble is, they are not always aware of the importance of the task entrusted to them, and often a key contact ends up on two weeks holiday or working on bringing the email servers back up, instead of focussing on the tight deadlines of delievery of data.

If you are running through an exercise to provide data, the key people working on finding and extracting that data should be on call during the entire data collection phase, avoiding anyone who i likely to go on holiday. There is nothing worse than the task being passed from person to person with no real understanding of the issues at hand and theexpected dates for delivery of the data.

My recommendation is that the e-discovery consultant be responsible for the collection of data along with one key person that will be available during the discovery phase and responsible for assisting the consultant in finding the relevant information.

Does anyone have any experience of data collection going wrong due to people taking holidays? I know I have!

Martin.