Legal Hold

Autonomy Legal Hold Overview

The World’s Only Modular Legal Hold Solution for Notification, Preservation, Collection, Data Mapping, and Litigation Lifecycle Management

The duty to preserve potentially relevant information begins when litigation or an investigation is reasonably anticipated and presents the greatest challenge for most organizations. A reasonable and defensible legal hold process is required as penalties for the failure to preserve potentially relevant information can include evidentiary sanctions, adverse rulings, and fines. The organization must not only issue, manage, and track multiple hold notices but also simultaneously ensure all relevant information is preserved. With a dramatic increase in lawsuits and investigations and deadlines to respond getting tighter, this can be a daunting task.

Autonomy Legal Hold reduces the risks and costs associated with legal holds and the duty to preserve. The solution manages and notifies custodians, automatically builds and updates data maps, and applies intelligent legal hold policies against an enterprise’s full corpus of data, whether it lives on the network server or an employee’s remote laptop. In addition, it tracks data through the entire litigation lifecycle to provide a complete audit trail, visibility into the review process, and cost management.

Autonomy Legal Hold provides the systemized, repeatable, and defensible process necessary to manage cases, custodians, notifications, acknowledgements, preservation, collection, disposition, data maps, and the litigation lifecycle. Each step of the process is consistently executed on a single, easy to use, highly scalable and secure platform that quickly implements the workflow and processes necessary to demonstrate reasonable and good faith efforts to comply with the duty to preserve.

How Does Autonomy Resolve the Challenge of Legal Hold?

To be defensible, a legal hold requires not only custodian notification but also preservation of relevant data. Autonomy provides the industry’s first and only comprehensive, automated, and effective solution for mitigating the risk associated with legal holds and meeting the preservation obligation. Autonomy Legal Hold (ALH) reduces the risks and costs associated with the duty to preserve, extending the organization’s control of its information to the edge of the network and beyond. ALH extends Autonomy’s Proactive Information Risk Management solutions to cover the entire enterprise, including laptops, desktops, mailboxes, SharePoint, and other data sources. With several industry firsts, including a preserve-in-place function for laptops and desktops and the ability to collect to the cloud, ALH helps ensure compliance with the preservation obligation.

Autonomy Legal Hold is a modular solution designed to consistently manage cases, custodians, notifications, acknowledgements, preservation, collection, disposition, data maps, and the litigation lifecycle. Built on a single, highly scalable and secure platform, it is fully auditable, easy to use, and quickly implements the processes and procedures necessary to demonstrate reasonable and good faith compliance with the duty to preserve. It is available on appliances, laptops, servers and in the cloud and provides a complete range of preservation and collection options for practitioners and IT alike. By automating the entire process, ALH replaces the high cost and protracted effort of manual solutions with a defensible process.

Autonomy Legal Hold: Modular, Scalable & Defensible: Designed to meet your needs at every step of the legal hold process

Autonomy Legal Hold drastically reduces the time and guesswork traditionally associated with the legal hold process by automating the process. Autonomy Legal Hold is a complete solution with four seamlessly connected modules, designed to meet your needs at each step of the legal hold process: