E-Discovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: A Pocket Guide (Softcover)

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If someone sues your company, discovery will involve e-mails, not just a paper-trail. Is your business prepared for that?

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) govern the activities of all US federal civil courts. They contain discovery requirements that any company must satisfy when it is the subject of a civil action, such as an employment discrimination lawsuit or an intellectual property dispute.

 

FRCP Updated

 

The FRCP have been amended and updated to take account of electronic information. Attorneys can no longer just throw individual E-Discovery requests ‘over the wall’ to the IT department. Indeed, the pitfalls associated with E-Discovery represent one of the greatest risks that organisations face in litigation today. If a defendant fails to produce e-mail evidence when required, the courts will assume that this evidence has been wilfully destroyed or withheld.

 

Records management professionals, IT personnel, compliance experts and general counsel all need to work together to develop a comprehensive framework for handling E-Discovery requirements.

 

This pocket guide provides expert advice on how to build such a framework within your organisation in order to assess and to manage the risks associated with E-Discovery.

Benefits to business include:

 

• Understand what the FRCP require
  Any entity that is, or may be, a party to a federal civil lawsuit should be familiar with the FRCP. This pocket guide explains the FRCP and looks at how a business is expected to handle an E-Discovery request under the recent amendments to these rules
• Prepare for the worst
  There are many situations that may result in a lawsuit, such as the dismissal of an employee or a dispute with a business partner. This pocket guide will show you what to do to ensure that in the event of court proceedings your digital information can be easily and quickly accessed  
• Avoid costly fines
  Organisations have only a limited amount of time to respond to E-Discovery requests. Failure to meet the deadline could land your organisation with a fine from the court of up to $50,000 per day. The pocket guide tells you some steps your organisation can take to ensure it has as much time as possible to fulfil an E-Discovery request, and thereby avoid costly fines
• Identify areas for improvement
  Even if E-Discovery is an issue your organisation is already addressing, it is still useful to find out where what you currently have in place falls short of best practice. The pocket guide contains a discovery readiness assessment checklist to help IT risk management professionals pinpoint areas that can be improved.  

 

Make sure your organisation is prepared to comply with an E-Discovery request – buy this pocket guide today!

About the author:

Bradley J. Schaufenbuel has held security leadership positions at Zurich Financial Services, Experian Information Solutions, and Arthur Andersen LLP. He has co-authored several ‘For Dummies’ books and published articles in professional journals on IT security and governance. His many qualifications include an MBA from DePaul University, and he holds CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) certification. Bradley Schaufenbuel also sits on the Board of Directors of two corporations.

 

Here is more information on this pocket guide.

 

Author: Bradley Schaufenbuel
Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 9781905356331 
Pages: 68
Published Date: 1 July 2007 
Availability: In Stock  

 

 

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