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In the Legal's E-Discovery supplement, read about legal holds and how oversight is key to preserving information, the use of technology to reduce the cost of e-discovery and the ethical duties involved in ESI.

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Legal Holds—Implementation and Oversight Are Key to Preserving Information The implementation and oversight of a legal hold are crucial to preserve relevant information and avoid sanctions. Not only must counsel determine the appropriate scope of reasonable preservation of relevant evidence as tempered by proportionality to the needs of each case, they must effectively communicate that obligation and monitor their client's compliance.

The Use of Technology to Reduce the Cost and Scope of E-Discovery Federal and state courts have weighed in and generally concur that e-discovery must be proportional to the matter. The question remains, what does that actually mean?

Are People the Weak Link in Technology-Assisted Review? The weak link preventing technology-assisted review (TAR) from achieving its true potential is a lack of clarity surrounding the technology—the components, the development and the distinctions.

Should We Reimagine the EDRM From a Legal Design Perspective? The EDRM is a useful visualization that walks through each step of the discovery process, and it is also a useful tool for analyzing discovery-related processes to identify needed enhancements and potential problems.

E-Discovery Document Review: 'COVER' Your Ethical Duties Litigation document review can be one of the most time-intensive parts of litigation, and comprises a large part of the work performed by many thousands of attorneys, across the U.S. and beyond.

E-Discovery's Evolution: Critical Implications for Law Firms, Providers In 2006, Wired magazine published an article about the advent of the e-discovery industry. In it, the author notes that many e-discovery vendors at the time provided very similar services—harvesting electronically-stored information (ESI), electronically de-duplicating the data, then posting it for attorney review in, what was then, a select number of web-accessible document review platforms.