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Litigation Holds: Past, Present, And Future Directions, Milton Luoma, Vicki M. Luoma
Litigation Holds: Past, Present, And Future Directions, Milton Luoma, Vicki M. Luoma
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
Electronically Stored Information (ESI) first became a serious litigation issue in the late 1990s, and the first attempts to determine best practices did not occur until the early 2000s. As best practices developed, the litigation hold to prevent routine destruction of documents and to preserve documents relevant to litigation came into existence. The duty to preserve ESI is triggered when litigation is reasonably anticipated. All information that relates to potential litigation must be preserved from the time it becomes reasonably apparent that litigation is possible until the expiration of the statute of limitations. If steps are not taken to properly …