What do the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) mean for eDiscovery requirements?
All organizations, regardless of size, vertical or industry, must:
- Be prepared to discuss how and where email was stored in the pretrial proceedings.
- Preserve email in a compliant manner and produce it with specified metadata intact.
- Produce email quickly according to discovery timelines.
Many companies aren’t even aware of the new eDiscovery requirements… this could cost them billions of dollars if they don’t get up to speed quickly… Debra Logan, VP of Research at Gartner
78% of companies use archiving services to address eDiscovery requirements: Should you join them?
93% of corporate counsel surveyed acknowledge they are not prepared for the growth in electronic discovery regulations and requirements.
Federal, state, and corporate governance regulations require most companies to comply with specific regulatory guidelines to retain electronically stored information for 2-7 years and be able to produce it within days. 75% of all eDiscovery requests involve email.1 These requests come from external audits, litigation, and internal search queries.
Back up tapes are not compliant with eDiscovery requirements for email, IM and other employee generated content
- Many companies wrongly assume backup tapes will be compliant and searchable.
- Backup tapes lack any indexing. This makes it extremely expensive and time consuming to retrieve user generated content across platforms as required by electronic discovery.
Organizations will eventually need to archive e-mail in order to put an end to the nightmarish management tasks and storage costs related to messaging environments. ESG
The expense and IT services it requires to find emails for electronic discovery purposes is potentially crippling to any company.
- 7 out of 10 businesses that experience an eDiscovery event go out of business.
eDiscovery today represents 35% of the total cost of litigation, and companies that fail to produce emails in a timely or appropriate manner face the risk of paying millions of dollars in sanctions and fines, not to mention loss of corporate reputation, lost revenue and embarrassment. Osterman Research
Email discovery is easy with Sonian’s hosted archiving and eDiscovery service
- 100% Email Capture
- Unlimited Storage
- Lifecycle and Storage Allocation
- Full Text Indexing
- Header, Body and Attachments
- Advanced Searching based on Indexing
- Advanced eDiscovery Features
- Legal Hold
- Add Comments
- Mark as Reviewed, Saved, Needs Attention
- Add tags
As an on-demand service, Sonian can be up and running in hours, with no upfront capital costs and minimal planning. We take care of storage and security issues, the archive can be easily managed by your existing IT staff.
