Mayer Brown Partner Eric Evans credits President Eisenhower with: “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”

“In an ESI context, efficient and defensible information practices are [dependent upon] planning—the preparation that gives you the tools you need to react to the emergency that messes up your plans,” Evans says.

The most important element in defensibility is the ability to document every step of a process, including your rationale for any given action, in a judge-friendly manner, adds Michael Hamilton, a senior e-discovery analyst at software vendor Exterro.

Mayer Brown Partner Eric Evans credits President Eisenhower with: “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”

“In an ESI context, efficient and defensible information practices are [dependent upon] planning—the preparation that gives you the tools you need to react to the emergency that messes up your plans,” Evans says.

The most important element in defensibility is the ability to document every step of a process, including your rationale for any given action, in a judge-friendly manner, adds Michael Hamilton, a senior e-discovery analyst at software vendor Exterro.