Tag Archives: Information Governance

A New E-Discovery Pot ‘O Gold: The SharePoint Online Recycle Bin

Today Microsoft announced a new feature for its hosted SharePoint service that will inevitably rear its head in future ugly e-discovery disputes: a recycle bin for entire SharePoint sites. According to Microsoft, “business is full of “oops” moments, and sometimes these moments can really slow down productivity . . . enterprise customers can now restore [...]

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An Industry First: Information Governance Video Whitepaper

I had fun with this project: the industry’s first Information Governance Video Whitepaper. The whitepaper is divided into three sections: Defining Information Governance The Difference Between Information Governance and Records Management Components of a Successful Information Governance Program With this project, we tried to provide a quick grounding in the fundamentals of Information Governance for [...]

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Webinar Recording Now Available: Solving Shared Drives

The live recording of the webinar I delivered with Mark Rye of Perram Corporation on “Solving Shared Drives.” is now available below, or here on YouTube. Enjoy. We will be publishing the whitepaper shortly as well.

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How well do you understand your email system? Litigation is not the time to find out.

“Had [outside counsel] fulfilled his obligation to familiarize himself with GFI’s policies earlier, the forensic searches and subsequent motions would have been unnecessary.” In re A & M Fla. Props.[i] 1.1     What happened? Two companies agreed to a $41 million real estate transaction. However, before the transaction closed, the sellers refinanced the properties in such [...]

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Email Management and Information Governance: Should we Just Get Rid of it All?

“It raises a question of whether there were other relevant emails in existence at that time but which were also not produced, and there is no satisfactory answer because all emails not archived by the email users had since been automatically deleted from the server.” Connor v. Sun Trust Bank[i] What happened? An employee of [...]

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