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The legal hold is initiated by a notice or communication from legal counsel to an organization that suspends the normal disposition or processing of records, such as backup tape recycling, archived media and other storage and management of documents and information. A legal hold will be issued as a
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and difficulty of producing such ESI and claims that such ESI was missing, deleted, or otherwise inaccessible when it really wasn’t the case. These changes took effect December 1, 2006 and require organizations to hold all electronic records until each legal matter is formally settled, even if an
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result of current or anticipated litigation, audit, government investigation or other such matter to avoid
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is a process that an organization uses to preserve all forms of potentially relevant information when
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is pending or reasonably anticipated. It is often issued when an organization receives a
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Process used by organizations to ensure the integrity of information during a legal issue
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organization only reasonably anticipates litigation.
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