Legal Technology - E-Discovery Road Map: Client's Record Management

Retention Policy A document-retention policy, an important tool that often figures in litigation, helps a company address the systematic creation, retention and disposition of corporate records.	E-Mail Filtering and Archiving Electronic data is often in the form of e-mail, which can be difficult to sort, catalog and store. It's crucial that a company manage its e-mail as effectively as it does its paper records.
Managing Duplicates Finalizing a record often means creating drafts, notes, calculations, correspondence and copies, all of which can be managed in various ways to adhere to a retention policy and free up storage space.	Metadata Metadata, or embedded data about data, is included in almost every electronic document imaginable, and can figure prominently in litigation.
Storage and Disposition A variety of legal restrictions govern the storage and disposal of corporate records. Find out how to avoid running afoul of them.	Auditing Audits of a record-management program can assure an organization that its internal standards and practices are being followed and that its compliance with legislation and regulation is legally defensible.