Legal Hold Flashcards
Steps in Legal Hold
- Confirm Involvement
- Draft Notice/Questionnaire
- Create Preservation Case
- Send Notice
- Receive Custodian Responses
- Enforce compliance
- Release Custodian
- Close Legal Hold
Legal Hold - Before Installation
- Collect Required Email Settings Information
2. Collect Required Preservation Information (preserve in place Microsoft 365)
Legal Hold - Technical Requirements
- Install from application library
- Configure access and security
- complete email settings on the Legal Hold Settings tab
- Complete custodian portal settings
- Complete preservation hold settings on the Preservation Hold Setting tab
Legal Hold - Project Owners
Employees who are ultimately responsible for identifying custodians, drafting notices, managing the hold process
Legal Hold - Project Administrators
The employees who will be using Relativity Legal Hold for creating the hold and sending it to employees
Data Stewards
employees responsible for managing the electronic assets and information systems of the organizations
Alert Groups
Groups or teams that will be notified if a custodian answers a question in a certain manner
Legal Hold or Preservation Notices
The notification and instructions that hold participants receive that explains their obligations under the hold
Alert Notices
Notification to the Alert Group that a custodian has answered a question in a way that requires attention
Release Notices
The notification that an individual or all the hold participants have been released from their obligations under the hold
Legal Hold Considerations
- What role will members of the organization have
- Review existing hold notices and communications and prepare templates
- Determine the ‘reminder’ and ‘escalation’ cadence
- Determine whether periodic reminders for individual projects or all holds will be sent and what the cadence of those will be
- Review current hold questionnaires for templates and what standard questions might be asked of all hold participants
- Review procedures for communicating hold notices to data stewards
Communication Templates
Alert Notice
Legal Hold Notice
Email Acknowledgement
Legal Hold Release
Roles
Alert Group Custodian Human Resources Information Technology Silent Custodian - won't receive communications but still appears in Custodian reports; are for people that you either don't want to know are on legal hold, or people you don't want to disturb with excess communications