The Sedona Guidelines on Managing Information and Records
"The Sedona Working Group has published The Sedona Guidelines: Best Practice Guidelines and Commentary for Managing Information and Records in the Electronic Age. The guidelines are designed to promote effective approaches to addressing the key issues of electronic records management.
Unlike the recent ANSI/ARMA or ISO standard-setting efforts, The Sedona Guidelines focuses on legal imperatives that are driving the issue. Compliance with these new requirements can best be fostered by adopting the approach underlying the five Sedona guidelines….
Guideline One: Adopt a Practical and Reasonable Approach...
Guideline Two: Carefully Assess Retention Requirements...
Guideline Three: Deal with the Overwhelming Volume of Electronic Communications...
Guideline Four: Make Effective Use of Technology...
Guideline Five: Enhance Your Litigation Hold Process
Most organizations now understand the need to implement an adequate legal hold process. Generally speaking, a legal hold consists of practices and procedures, usually managed by the legal or tax department, which suspend deletion or destruction of electronic and other forms of information. Legal holds also lay the groundwork for identification and collection of such information…”
Read more in this article from Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw from Mondaq.
