Companies facing lawsuits and regulatory audits must produce specific electronic data by court-mandated deadlines. Those that can't risk multimillion-dollar fines and penalties. Yet two-thirds of companies have no policies for saving, purging and managing e-mail.
Find out what happened to German investment bank WestLB after it was hit with a sex discrimination suit—and had to dig up 650,000 e-mail messages and documents.
Case Study: WestLB Securities
When E-Mail Becomes Evidence
Risks About to Rise
WestLB Tackles Electronic Discovery
A "Boys' Club"?
What's In Your E-Mail?
How Not to Get Paralyzed
Also In This Feature:
The Principals in WestLB's Case
5 Steps for E-Mail Retention
Project Planner: Calculating Costs of an E-Mail Storage System
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