Step 7 for Legal Holds: Monitor and Remove

This is the seventh article of a series aimed at helping organizations discharge their duty to preserve ESI

This is the seventh installment in a series of articles aimed at helping organizations implement an effective written litigation hold. This article covers monitoring and removing the legal hold.

This step involves what to do with a litigation hold once it has been implemented, enforced, examined, and modified (if necessary). Each step in developing and implementing a legal hold is an important part of a defensible litigation hold process. Despite the importance of monitoring and releasing a litigation hold, it is often the step that is overlooked by many organizations. At this point in the process the hard part of setting up the litigation hold is over and perhaps the team is moving on to the next litigation-hold fire or caught up in an e-discovery project. Perhaps there is a sigh of relief that the litigation hold is in place and defensible. Now is not the time, however, to rest on prior accomplishments. The process is not over.

Below are common tasks facing an organization during this final step, which includes, reminders, tracking, new employees, departing employees, and releasing a hold.

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Source: law.com
By: John Isaza and John J. Jablonski