Several key steps are important in the preservation of your client's data once litigation ensues. Even the notion of litigation should be cause to take steps for preservation of possible relevant data. LTC can help you with important action to avoid problems from the beginning. What is a duty to preserve and what action should a client take within its own company to comply with rules of evidence? Consulting covers items such as Preservation of ESI, Third Party Preservation and Preservation Policies for a party involved in litigation.

Organizations must address the following four key components of eDiscovery:

 

 

1. Mandatory disclosure of all ESI under Rule 26(a)(1)(B)

 

2. What will not be produced, or produced only if the requesting party bears some or all of the cost of production, under Rule 26(b)(2)(B)

 

3. The form of production under Rule 34(b)

 

4. "Safe Harbor Rule" that prevents organizations from being penalized for not producing ESI if it is lost as a result of routine, goodfaith operation under Rule 37(f)