EnCase eDiscovery: EnCase Legal Hold

EnCase® eDiscovery EnCase® Legal Hold

"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

From Legal Hold to Load File

Key Benefits & Features

EnCase® Legal Hold's seamless integration with EnCase® eDiscovery comprises an in-house software solution that gives your organization the ability to put the hold in legal hold.

Organizations can now maintain a complete chain of custody from the moment the duty to preserve documents occurs, through the eDiscovery phases of search, identification, collection, preservation, processing and exporting documents into load file format for review.

Using a single case database, Corporate legal departments can 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).

Satisfy the Duty to Preserve

Preservation obligations imposed under statutes, regulations and Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure state that there is a duty to preserve relevant information when litigation can be anticipated. Many current litigation hold solutions, however, do not provide an integrated technical means to systematically collect and process data from custodians subject to litigation holds.

EnCase Legal Hold leverages court validated EnCase® technology to enforce litigation holds on all types of unstructured and semi-structured data residing on desktops, laptops, local PSTs and NSFs, email servers, file shares, attached storage devices, Documentum servers and other data repositories.

Legal Hold Callout

Key Benefits

Satisfy the duty to preserve relevant information in anticipation of litigation
Manage, track and report on not only custodian acknowledgments but also collection, preservation and processing
Use a process that is defensible, repeatable, systemized and scalable

Key Features

Identify and notify custodians of legal preservation holds
At the outset of litigation, leverage tight integration with EnCase® eDiscovery to enforce litigation holds by collecting potentially relevant data
Easy to use Web-based application