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A litigation hold is a directive to individuals within a company to preserve ESI and documents that are potentially relevant to a legal matter. 

The most common reason that parties to litigation are sanctioned by the courts is:

The phrase “litigation readiness” suggests that an organization has taken no steps to prepare for a potential lawsuit. 

It is not an acceptable practice to produce large volumes of ESI with no attempt to search for and withhold privileged information. 

De-duplication removes duplicate copies of documents from a data set.

The document review process is the most time-consuming, error prone and costly aspect of e-discovery.

To reduce the cost of e-discovery project, it is necessary to:

Discovery costs are known to exceed more than 50% of the cost involved in an entire litigation. 

The practice of permitting broad and liberal discovery of large volumes of documents is unique to the U.S. legal system, whereas in other countries discovery is usually very limited in scope. 

Blocking statutes, state secrets laws, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are all examples of: