• Corporate attorneys Pike and Fischer have identified that only 7% of companies are ready to meet the E-Discovery requirements of the recently updated FRCP.
• 91% of organizations with a workforce over 20,000 employees have been through an electronic discovery event in the past twelve months, this statistic is truly astounding (ESG Research).
• 'A key part of dealing with the economic downturn'

The pitfalls involved with E-Discovery represent one of the greatest risks that organizations face in litigation today.

This toolkit describes the rules and the recent changes made to them, exploring the implications of these changes for the enterprise (with a focus on IT), lays out a framework for identifying, assessing and then addressing the risks associated with the facilitation of E-Discovery requests under the new rules - and then provides all the templates that you will need to put that framwork in place

This 'toolkit is a wise investment' - Storage Magazine Nov 2007

The E-Discovery No.2 toolkit contains:

1. The unique Handbook: E-Discovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: A Pocket Guide

2. Documentation toolset with individual templates for:

• • • Prior to an E-Discovery event
      • Assessing organizational readiness
      • Making the business case
      • Project planning
      • Policy making
      • Key contact list
      • Training
      • Compiling an inventory of information
      • Establishing a procedural handbook
      • Implementing an early warning system
    • During a specific E-Discovery event
      • Instituting a litigation hold
      • Communicating a preservation hold to a third party
      • Preparing for the pre-conference meeting
      • Authorizing E-Discovery searches
      • Maintaining a chain of evidence log
      • Facilitating a postmortem meeting
    • Between E-Discovery events
      • E-Discovery drill planning
    • Evaluating E-Discovery Technology solutions
      • Soliciting proposals
      • Evaluating proposals

This toolkit comes with 12 months of free automatic updates.

The author of the Pocket Guide and creator of the documentation toolkit, Bradley J. Schaufenbuel, is Senior Manager of I.T. Risk at Zurich Financial Services.  He has also held security leadership positions at Experian Information Solutions and Arthur Andersen LLP. He has written a number of other IT and information security books and has had articles published in professional journals on a variety of topics related to IT security and governance. 

Bradley holds eleven professional designations in the areas of information security management, IT compliance, fraud examination, IT audit, computer forensics, ethical hacking, and project management, including the CISSP, CISM, CISA, PMP, ISSMP, ISSAP, CFE, CEH, CIFI, CSOXM, and CHS-III .  He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from DePaul University and is currently pursuing a Juris Doctorate degree in I.T. and privacy law from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.  Bradley also has the practical experience that comes from sitting on the board of directors of two private corporations and a non-profit community center.

Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
Format: Download
Published Date: 6 July 2007 
Availability: Immediate Download 

Simplify your preparation for that inevitable e-Discovery requirement - buy this toolkit today.