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Litigation and Discovery

What Is a Legal Hold?

An instruction to preserve information that may be relevant to a reasonably anticipated or pending legal matter, suspending normal deletion.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

Legal hold software sends notices, tracks acknowledgments and records what was preserved, which matters if preservation is later challenged. It also has to coordinate with the organization's normal retention and deletion policies.

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Related Terms

ESI (electronically stored information)
Any information created, stored or used in digital form that may be relevant in litigation: email, documents, chat messages, databases, audio, video and more.
eDiscovery
Collecting, reviewing and producing electronically stored information, such as email, chat and documents, in litigation, investigations and regulatory requests.
Data retention policy
Rules for how long different types of records are kept and when they are deleted.

General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.