Arkfeld's Best Practice Guide for Legal Hold, 2014-2015 Edition

This publication provides strategic guidance, recommendations and practice forms for legal professionals, organizations, including corporate counsel, in preparing for and implementing a "legal hold." This Guide provides an overview of the IT infrastructure of an organization and covers the components of a legal hold readiness plan to ensure that your client can identify, preserve, collect, process, and review electronic data for disclosure in a timely manner. Such a proactive approach will contribute to your success by properly identifying and preserving ESI once a triggering event occurs. It provides sample legal hold procedures and forms manual for an organization, preservation notice letters for your client and opposing counsel, and a section on information technology discovery questions.

Contents Include:

•  Overview of Legal Hold and Electronic Discovery
•  Overview of Information Technology
•  Legal Hold Readiness Plan
•  Legal Hold
•  Organization Legal Hold Procedures and Forms Manual
•  Law Firm Legal Hold Procedures and Practice Forms
•  Information Technology Discovery Questions
•  Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure