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Tom Lahiff, former Assistant General Counsel, Litigation , of Citigroup, authors a blog published by the CGOC
The blog focuses on the under-addressed topics of legal holds. It will include discussion of preservation triggers, managing and monitoring legal holds, case law analysis and relevant fact patterns, and the balance of responsibility between inside and outside counsel. Tom will also discuss the intersection of legal holds and record retention practices and related business practices and case law. Unlike forums focused on e-discovery review and production or those focused on records management, the blog will follow the CGOC precedent of deep attention to legal holds and the intersection with modern retention practices.

Talking Legal to IT to Audiences and IT to Legal Audiences
Litigation executives and discovery staff often express the need for their IT counterparts need to engage more on the challenges of discovery. From IT executives we hear the need for clearer communication on what needs to be retained, how to capture and store data, and when to retire it — with enough precision that information management teams can really translate that into operations and execution. What do you need to know to get your message across?

FRCP Quick Primers
Meet and Confer? Reasonably accessible? ESI? The anniversary of the amendments to the FRCP is quickly upon us — do you know everything you need to?

eDiscovery Cases
Zubulake, Coleman, Qualcomm — these landmark cases have set e-discovery precedents. What are the essentials?

US Courts Refresher
The US Courts system can seem complex and intricate at times, here’s a link to a simple break down of the system.