IT professionals can save themselves a great deal of hassle by working with counsel to standardize on a communication methodology that addresses potential discovery-related activity. A useful strategy would define a communication channel with counsel whereby IT personnel can be brought in to the discovery process as early as possible.
If you’re like most of us in IT, you probably have a relatively small number of individuals in your firm that you’re used to working with fairly closely.
For example, if you’re a development manager, you probably work closely on a daily basis with the business folks to understand their requirements for the systems you develop. If you’re a network architect, you might work closely with software architects in order to optimize the network to support the applications Get the Facts on BlackBerry Business Solutions that people use daily.
[...] As with most new compliance rules, there is some confusion and hand-wringing on the part of enterprises as to what the amendments really mean. In this case, the big question companies are asking of their attorneys, IT people, vendors and compliance officers is: Do the new rules mean we have to drastically alter the way we preserve, retrieve and produce electronic data? The answer to that question: It depends. It depends on what practices, procedures and technology you already have in place (if any), and how susceptible your enterprise is to a lawsuit. Tags: investigation, investigator, private investigator, e-discovery, electronic data discovery [...]
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