Extract from Jim Gill’s article “4 Ways Data Retention Policies Can Disrupt the eDiscovery Process”
Data retention policies are definitely a topic of discussion among IT departments, but they should also be top of mind for legal departments as well.
In fact, legal teams and IT should be communicating regularly about how data retention policies affect legal hold processes–so they can better balance required preservation of evidential ESI, while still supporting ongoing information governance programs.
What Are Data Retention Policies?
Put simply, data retention policies are the ongoing data deletion protocols organizations run as part of their information governance program to keep data stores manageable and reduce risk. Data retention policies can vary across organizations and even between departments or teams within an organization, which is why it’s important all stakeholders involved in the eDiscovery process stay aware of how data retention policies affect legal holds and data preservation.
