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eDiscovery Training and eDiscovery Compliance

Global Learning Systems can provide your organization with customized or off-the-shelf (COTS) e Discovery compliance training to meet your organizational, process, and legal requirements.

This training program quickly and effectively helps your organization implement the procedures, process, and infrastructure you need for Electronic Discovery, providing a proactive approach to ensure e Discovery Compliance when issues arise.

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Becoming Discovery-Ready

Organizations can meet e Discovery Compliance by shifting from a reactive response to a proactive one - taking action now to achieve and sustain discovery preparedness and process. Through unified systems and policies to manage records, discovery, and compliance, organizations can significantly reduce cost, mitigate risk, and save time while protecting their reputation and improving their ability to work with courts, auditors, and regulators.

Four areas to consider are:

  • Policies and Procedures: Implement an approach that accounts for the interconnectivity of records, paper and electronic discovery, and compliance.
  • Infrastructure: Invest in technologies that will reduce effort, cost and risk while increasing effectiveness.
  • Integration: Coordinate people, processes and technologies to effectively achieve discovery readiness.
  • Execution: Be proactive with systematic management of records, archiving, and consistent discovery process.

eDiscovery Compliance Training : Addressing the need.

Electronic Discovery ( eDiscovery or e-Discovery ) is the process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searchable with the assumption it will be used as evidence in civil or criminal legal cases. Electronic Discovery can be carried out on a network, via the web, or from a physical computer - including court-ordered and government sanctioned hacking used to secure critical evidence. Cyberforensics ( or computer forensics ) is a form of eDiscovery involving the investigation of a specific computer.

All types of data serve as evidence in eDiscovery, including text, images, audio files, calendar files, databases, spreadsheets, animation, computer programs, and websites. Malware (including viruses, spyware, adware, and Trojans) can be secured and investigated as well. E-mail is especially valuable as users tend to be less careful in what information they disclose than they are with hard copy correspondence.

Recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) increase the urgency for organizations to act quickly. Changes include an early discussion of eDiscovery issues mandate and compel parties to produce an eDiscovery plan within 99 days of a lawsuit being filed. An organization's counsel must be able to ensure that they properly manage Electronically Stored Information (ESI), and it is imperative that they interact closely with IT to understand exactly where and how ESI exists and is managed within the organization.

In light of the fact that digital data can be electronically searched with ease and is more difficult to destroy, eDiscovery is becoming a major factor in legal compliance (FRCP) and organizational records.

Compliance, regulators, clients, investors, shareholders, and even employees continue to press for improved accountability in control and auditing of data and reporting process. Without a proactive approach and preparation, it will be nearly impossible for a business to effectively deal with growing eDiscovery issues.

As eDiscovery continues to evolve beyond technology, there are various legal, security, and personal privacy issues to consider and resolve.

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