Archiving Provider LiveOffice Streamlines E-Discovery in the Cloud

LiveOffice, the number-one global provider of cloud-based email archiving, email compliance, email discovery and email continuity solutions, today introduced two new features for its LiveOffice Discovery Archive solution, Collaborative Discovery and Retention Tags. Designed to streamline the discovery process for larger organizations that are beginning to adopt cloud-based archiving, Collaborative Discovery supports cross-functional collaboration on matters, so internal and external legal teams, IT, HR and other stakeholders can work more efficiently together. Retention Tags give organizations much more granular control over their archives, allowing them to easily enforce legal holds, manage retention policies and customize retention periods to meet specific needs.

According to a Litigation Cost Survey of Major Companies, prepared for the 2010 Conference on Civil Litigation at Duke Law School, the ratio of pages discovered to pages entered as exhibits is as high as 1,000:1. The study also found that the cost of discovery in enterprises can range from $600,000 to nearly $10,000,000 with one of the most significant variables being the review and production of ESI.

“The amount of ESI continues to increase, which will only make the variable component of discovery become higher and more unpredictable,” said Brian Babineau, vice president of research and analyst services for Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). “It is time for organizations to treat e-discovery as a business process and focus on all tasks, from managing information more precisely to evidence production. Starting with a flexible archiving solution that facilitates retention, preservation and proper disposition of distributed content can go a long way in simplifying the e-discovery process.”

Archiving spans much more than highly regulated industries today, and some companies don’t want to be forced to keep data indefinitely if they don’t have a legal obligation to do so. However, they still want to have clear and organized retention policies and the ability to enforce legal holds. Many companies also need to rely on users to classify content. Retention Tags allow organizations to:

• Define retention policies with different retention periods, depending on the type of content, specific users, folders or other custom criteria
• Use tags to delineate system- and user-driven retention periods
• Enforce legal holds (and apply them in 30 seconds or less – see www.legalholdchallenge.com for more details)

Seamless delegation and collaborative reviewing are essential components of e-discovery for enterprises. Approved matter owners can delegate to and/or share access with multiple reviewers for a single matter or even on a per search basis. It is also important to have efficient internal reviews of matters to reduce exorbitant production costs. Collaborative Discovery allows organizations to:

• Delegate management of all matters to legal personnel
• Divide email review tasks among multiple reviewers and assign them different review action privileges
• Use tags to categorize emails for more efficient review
• Perform detailed exports of emails within a matter
• Prove chain of custody from matter to reviewer to message

Pricing & Availability

Retention Tags feature is available now; Collaborative Discovery is available in Beta now. Please contact LiveOffice for pricing.

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About LiveOffice

LiveOffice is the number-one global provider of cloud-based email archiving, email compliance, email discovery and email continuity solutions, with more than 15,000 clients and a 97-percent client-retention rate. Founded in 1998 and backed by leading private-equity firm Summit Partners, the company has more than 175 employees with deep experience in messaging, including executives from Symantec, Microsoft and Cisco. For more information, call 800-374-2032 or visit www.liveoffice.com. Visit the LiveOffice Blog at http://blog.liveoffice.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/liveoffice.

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