One can be forgiven for thinking legal holds only exist in the U.S. It is, after all, a legal responsibility under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and characteristic of the United States’ e-discovery culture and tradition.

But U.S.-based multinational companies often have foreign subsidiaries, meaning legal holds can be issued for data stored far from U.S. shores. Managing legal holds in different countries, however, can be a difficult process, not in the least because of language barriers.

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