How General Counsel Can Spur Legal Hold Success

Getting compliance by employees when the company is subject to a hold can be a major challenge. Employees will need to be asked to alter familiar routines they may have gotten used to over many months, sometimes years. An article in Today’s General Counsel provides some suggestions. The policy needs be clear, unequivocal and, above all, simple. The attorneys need to give examples of what to do, and probably more important, what not to do (e.g., delete voicemails, or save work to a home computer or backup drives). Also make clear what could be at stake for the company, and that compliance is not optional, and it will be enforced.