Legal Hold & Preservation
Design and Implement Accurate, Defensible, Scalable Processes
Get expert support to ensure your legal hold and preservation processes are defensible and efficient, and avoid inadvertent spoliation and over-preservation. Lighthouse data governance, compliance, and forensics experts provide a continuum of support for all aspects of legal hold and preservation.
Increase Efficiency
Assess your current data landscape, then streamline and automate your operating model end to end, reducing manual work and risk of errors.
Ensure Compliant Preservation
Improve custodian and data identification and implement preservation from modern data sources including cloud and mobile.
Mitigate Preservation Risks
Conduct a full assessment to understand your current legal hold position and delete expendable items, right-sizing preserved custodian data.
Modernize Preservation and Compliance
Migrate existing legal holds to a cloud-based platform, consolidating data into a single source of truth.
Legal Hold Success from Assessment to Program Implementation
Our consultants apply years of eDiscovery experience to provide actionable legal hold advice, and frameworks that balance legal and regulatory needs for defensibility, compliance, and efficiency.
- Assess current operations and develop customized policies and procedures
- Provide preservation strategies, including repository and process mapping/tracking for matters
- Design an operating model, including governance, controls, and audits
- Evaluate, select, and implement technology
- Consult on cross-border transfers
- Plan M365 Purview configurations
Defensible Data Identification, Capture, and Preservation Services
Even organizations with established legal hold policies and procedures occasionally need assistance implementing holds from challenging data sources. Lighthouse forensics experts secure and preserve data from platforms and devices that lack in-place preservation capabilities, ensuring complete compliance with legal hold requirements.
- Preserve mobile data from BYOD and company-issued devices
- Host legal hold technology solutions
- Log and track legal holds
- Control and audit processes
Legal Hold Remediation to Reduce Risks, Lower Storage Costs
Lighthouse consultants help you reduce the compliance risks and IT burdens associated with indefinite legal hold retention by defensibly removing unnecessary data from your repositories—complete with documentation of all actions:
- Assess current legal hold state
- Compile updated legal hold list
- Identify and map custodians
- Assure legacy data preservation
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FAQs
What is a legal hold, and why is it essential?
A legal hold is a process used to preserve relevant data for litigation or regulatory purposes. It ensures that information is not altered, deleted, or lost, supporting compliance and defensibility in the eDiscovery process.
How does preservation fit into the legal hold process?
Preservation is a key component of a legal hold, requiring organizations to safeguard electronically stored information (ESI) that might be relevant to a legal matter. Effective preservation minimizes risks of spoliation and strengthens defensibility.
Who is a custodian, and what is their role in a legal hold?
A custodian is the individual who owns or controls specific data that is subject to a legal hold. This person typically has the data on their device or in their data stores. It’s crucial to identify and notify custodians accurately to ensure data is preserved and compliant with legal requirements.
What challenges do organizations face with legal hold and preservation?
Organizations often encounter challenges such as identifying relevant data and custodians notifying custodians, tracking legal holds over long periods, and managing workflows. Weak governance frameworks can lead to inefficiencies, compliance risks, and increased costs.
Why is defensibility important in a legal hold program?
Defensibility ensures that an organization's legal hold and preservation efforts can withstand legal scrutiny. This includes maintaining clear documentation, tracking notifications to custodians and their responses, and demonstrating compliance with established processes.
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