Using Analytics To Clean Out The ESI Garage

Writing in Today’s General Counsel, Robert D. Brownstone, attorney at Fenwick & West, and Gabriela P. Baron, Xerox Litigation Services, consider the essential problem of electronically stored information (ESI) and how it can be addressed. “Many a garage,” they write, “keeps getting fuller and more chaotic until two distinct problems emerge: Difficulty finding a particular object and increased risk of hidden hazards. The same issues pervade the electronic information management (EIM) environment.” The solution is summed up in the concept of information governance, and they lay out the essentials of an effective program.