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Litigation Support for Information Governance

BY Alice E. Burns
April 27, 2012

The treatment of personal identifiable information (PII) is quickly becoming an increasingly critical issue and should be on litigation support's risk and information governance agenda.

Lawyers in certain industry sectors, such as e-commerce, may have a duty to protect PII. And for some corporations, such as finance or medical, the duty to protect PII may be highly regulated, while in other industries ' education or government, for example ' that compile personal information as statistical data, the duty may be self-imposed through acts or executive order.

Where industry does compile personal identifiable information, and there is a duty to protect this information, companies are moving to regulate it within internal systems. They consider:

  • What happens when PII is transmitted to the litigation support team as part of client information subject to an adversarial action?
  • What is PII, anyway?
  • Does litigation support have a duty to protect PII on behalf of the law firm's client?
  • If there is a duty, how should litigation support react to protect PII?

PII Defined

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