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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) are a body of rules that govern court procedures for managing civil suits in the United States district courts. On December 1, 2006, a number of important revisions to the FRCP went into effect. Among them, organizations must manage their electronically stored information (ESI) so that it can be produced in a timely and complete manner when necessary, such as during legal proceedings. Compliance with the FRCP should figure prominently in the message retention policy of any company that could potentially be involved in civil litigation. Email and electronic messaging have become extremely common forms of admissible evidence during the legal discovery process, the period of time when companies involved in litigation are asked to produce all relevant documentation and turn it over to counsel. For your company's e-discovery efforts to be successful, it boils down to a few simple ideas: know what you have, how it is classified and where to find it. This is where Archive Compliance comes in. Complementing the company's scalable, robust and secure email archiving system, the Archive Compliance management console provides versatile, customizable and efficient means for message classification and retrieval. The Archive Compliance management console and managed archiving service allow for your company to use advanced search capabilities to find specific records within your complete and secure archive, locate and produce evidentiary-quality messages in seconds and analyze a complete audit trail for every message and archive administrator session. Archive Compliance's functionality can review and classify every message (based on your company's rules and permissions) that leaves or enters your organization's domains. Being prepared with a PROACTIVE solution in place can save your company significant hassle, time and money. REACTIVE solutions, such as extracting data from less sophisticated backup systems (tapes), can be extremely costly and open your company to risks based on the timeliness of compliance and/or storage reliability. Overzealous deletion policies can lead to the inability to produce requested information, and ultimately can result in greater penalties from the court. Whether for a regulatory audit or an e-discovery request, Archive Compliance is well-practiced in assisting its clients furnish the information that they need. Messages can easily be classified for the legal hold process, when court or counsel requests that all data relevant to a particular case be preserved. Archive Compliance can produce emails in many formats, and all requested information can be securely downloaded using the Archive Compliance management console in real time. |