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Cutting Through Corporate Clutter: Making ESI Preparedness & Response a Priority

Balancing the effects of increasing litigation, progressively complex IT infrastructures and expanding government regulations with tighter budgetary resources is the new reality. Corporations that fail to institute repeatable and scalable litigation response strategies and are later sued will discover the defensibility of their policy is at issue.

Consequently, sensible ESI discovery preparedness can not only prevent a misstep, but serve as a corporation’s best litigation cost savings strategy. This presentation will explore the results of the Fourth Annual ESI Trends Survey, highlighting significant trends about ESI preparedness, response and emerging technologies among corporate legal and IT departments. This presentation will also recommend best practices for implementing, testing and evaluating an ESI discovery policy that corporations and law firms alike must understand.

Among the topics to be discussed are:

• Document retention and ESI discovery strategies
• Approaches to preserving potentially relevant data for litigation and/or regulatory requirements
• Measures to ensure defensibility of ESI policies
• Challenges responding to requests for ESI
• Challenges with collaboration between legal and IT teams

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