IT + Legal BFF to Prevent Document Tampering

IT will have to develop processes for legal holds, in which messages or files that fall under the scope of litigation must be stored in such a way that they can't be changed, says Andrew Conry-Murray at InformationWeek. E-discovery was the word of the week at last week's LegalTech show in New York City. Vendors hawked a spectrum of products to help IT and corporate lawyers get their hands on relevant electronic documents, ensure those documents can't be tampered with, and pump them into the applications used by legal counsel. Just as important as products is close cooperation between your IT and legal departments. IT must help legal understand concepts such as metadata, archives, and tiered storage so the lawyers can more accurately describe to IT the scope of a discovery request.