E-discovery: Creating and Managing an Enterprisewide Program

Foreword

Karen Schuler

Have you wondered what it takes to implement or expand a corporate e-discovery program? Consider this point: if you understand where your electronically stored information (ESI) resides, the format in which it is stored, the amount of ESI your organization actually has, how accessible it is, your ability to search and extract it from enterprise systems (as well as local hard drives), and how to deliver that data to a vendor or to process it yourself internally, then you're probably well ahead of the curve. But if that's not you, you're really not alone in wondering what to do next. Over the last couple of years, corporations have taken a leading interest in electronic discovery (e-discovery) by mandating their preferred vendors ...