EnCase eDiscovery: EnCase Legal Hold

EnCase® eDiscovery: Legal Hold

Legal Hold Made Easy

"The basic principle that an organization has a duty to preserve relevant information in anticipation of litigation is easy to articulate. However, the precise application of that duty can be elusive."

The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Legal Holds: The Trigger & The Process, August 2007

Defensible, Automated and Fully Integrated

Key Benefits & Features

EnCase_eDiscovery_ContentLogo There is a duty to preserve all potentially relevant information when litigation can be reasonably anticipated. This has presented a challenge for organizations to find an efficient and integrated solution to meet the preservation obligations. That is, until now.

With EnCase eDiscovery organizations now have a fully integrated electronic discovery solution – from legal hold to load file – that provides a technical means to systematically and automatically notify, collect, process, and analyze ESI from custodians subject to litigation holds.

From Legal Hold to Load File

EnCase eDiscovery legal hold provides a defensible process and complete chain of custody from the moment the duty to preserve occurs and throughout the e-discovery phases: including, search, identification, collection, preservation, processing and exporting documents into load file format for review.

Using a single case database, corporate legal and IT departments can seamlessly work together to manage the process to issue litigation holds, interview custodians and monitor compliance with the holds. Additionally, companies can manage, track and report on the actual collection, preservation and processing of electronically stored information (ESI).

Key Benefits

Reduces risk with a defensible, repeatable and scalable process
Satisfies the duty to preserve relevant information in anticipation of litigation
Enables better collaboration between legal and the technical teams

Key Features

Systematically issue, monitor, and enforce litigation holds with full audit trail and reporting
At the outset of litigation, leverage tight integration with EnCase® eDiscovery to enforce litigation holds by collecting potentially relevant data
Manage, track and report custodian acknowledgements, collection, preservation and processing
Enforce hold on all types of unstructured and semi-structured data residing on desktops, laptops, local PSTs and NSFs, email servers, file shares, attached storage devices, content management servers and other data repositories