Extract from Hanzo’s article “Slack eDiscovery Tools: A Buyer’s Guide for Legal and Compliance Teams“
Slack has transformed the way modern organizations communicate. Conversations that once happened over long email threads now take place in fast-moving channels, private messages, and quick back-and-forth threads. While this improves speed and collaboration, it introduces new complexity for legal and compliance teams. How do you capture, preserve, and analyze a communication thread that isn’t linear or static?
That’s the core challenge Slack presents for eDiscovery. It’s not enough to retrieve individual messages. Legal teams need a way to piece together conversations as they actually happened—with full visibility into who participated, how messages evolved, and what context shaped them. The right Slack eDiscovery tool gives legal teams the power to make sense of this data, reducing the noise of other topics and respond effectively when litigation or regulatory obligations arise.
But not all tools are created equal. Choosing the right Slack eDiscovery software means understanding your risk profile, how your teams actually use Slack, and what capabilities will support a defensible, efficient process.
This guide will help you make that decision with clarity and confidence.
