The Litigation Hold Letter to Client form prevents mistakes with electronically stored information, including meta data.

Tell your clients, quickly and efficiently, their legal obligations to prevent destruction of electronically stored information, including the meta data. Give your client a "litigation hold" letter that contains specific instructions the courts require you to give.

Give instructions when the courts demand you do it: as soon "as litigation is imminent". The Lawyer Trial Forms litigation hold form is a comprehensive three page form letter with electronic, ESI, e-data, evidence preservation advice to your client (plus additional pages of text tips to attorneys). # ELEC3320. Litigation Hold Letter to Client is designed to be clear advice, so your client will not be confused.  The form is also your own checklist of what needs to be done by you -- the responsible attorney -- in directing your client. 

"Preservation of Electronic Files begins with a "Litigation Hold".

We offer to lawyers and legal assistants the e-discovery, and e-evidence advice of a senior attorney mentor.  That's what you find in these legal form letters that serve as instructive checklists.

At the present time we offer two evidence preservation forms for the initial "Litigation Hold."  They are designed for the two sides of a litigator's need to ASAP handle the lawyer's obligations to see that electronic evidence, including meta data, is preserved.  The two "sides" are:

# ELEC3320. Litigation Hold Letter to Client tells your clients their obligations to preserve evidence, including electronically stored evidence (ESI). This form letter is designed to give you a psychologically effective path to communicate the serious nature of the client's obligation to preserve evidence. Guide clients so they do not make critical - but common - mistakes

Here are the three basic facts why you need this Litigation Hold Letter to Client.

• The first basic fact is that lawyers today have a new legal obligation to "adequately instruct" their client, and take an affirmative and active role in preserving ESI evidence, including the meta data in electronically stored information --- "as soon as litigation is imminent."  The key phrases are "adequately instruct" and "as soon as litigation is imminent." Courts say that in most cases "litigation is imminent" when the client walks in the door seeking an attorney. An attorney's failure to "adequately instruct" the client and get involved in document preservation "as soon as litigation is imminent" has caused courts to impose severe sanctions on the attorney personally. The word "adequately" is the adverb the courts are all tacking on to the verb "instruct" when they say the attorney failed to "adequately instruct" the client on what ESI has to be preserved and how it must be preserved. The courts are not lenient on the attorney who waits until a demand from the opposition before instructing the client on what ESI to preserve and how to preserve it. Litigation Hold Letter to Client gives you not only a summary of important information, but also an additional specific "Checklist for Attorneys", with steps the courts expect you --- personally ---  to take with your client.

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• The second basic fact is that the chances are that some discoverable evidence in the case will be ESI. The fact is that in today’s world most documents and data are electronic, so failure to preserve electronically stored evidence (ESI) destroys evidence as the computer overwrites data and meta data!  The courts now impose the affirmative duty on you to preserve your client's ESI for the adversary to discover! And there is a lot to discover. Studies at the beginning of this 21st century showed that over 90% of most correspondence and data is stored electronically, not in file cabinets. Now a few years later, ESI is approaching the 98% mark!  Most external and internal correspondence is either e-mail or it is written on a computer, and the sender's copy is kept electronically.  Moreover, the chances are that some of your client's evidence --- to help your client --- is probably in electronic format. If it is not preserved properly, you may not be able to introduce it into evidence as the required "original" document.   Litigation Hold Letter to Client gives your specific instructions to your client.

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• The third basic fact is that electronically stored information includes metadata. The simplest definition of metadata is that it is information (data) generated by a computer about a particular content (data). For example your office computer contains the metadata of the date a file was last changed, and probably indicates a "change" when the file is simply copied to some other place. Hence, innocently after litigation starts copying a critical letter to a CD to save it may write meta data "date of change" to the file that raises the jury's   suspicion that the critical letter was changed after the litigation started.  Your client, if not properly instructed, may lose the case because of your failure to issue proper "litigation hold" advice. Litigation Hold Letter to Client gives your specific instructions to your client. In this century, no litigation lawyer can be without a Litigation Hold Letter to Client that contains a summary of what the lawyer needs to know plus the form of letter that is needed to give instructions that the courts consider "adequate instruction" to the client.

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Litigation Hold Letter to Client prevents some critical mistakes in how and what you tell the client, and in what you do.  Litigation Hold Letter to Client  has both "Tips to Attorneys" and also a "Checklist for attorneys."  The checklist contains the minimal steps you must take to comply with courts that follow Zubulake style standards. (If you want to see most of the checklist, without the "Tips to Attorneys," it is provided by us to you, as a free PDF, available here. We provide it because our business vision statement is: "Making Good Lawyers Better".)

You need the "tips for attorneys"  on # ELEC3320. Litigation Hold Letter to Client.  For example, some uninformed lawyers readily accept documents which have been ‘dragged and dropped’ onto a CD burned by  their clients or their adversaries. Either those lawyers have reached an agreement with adverse counsel that such a copying is sufficient, or they are making a big mistake.  (Copying onto a CD or using some other methods loses some the metadata, perhaps the metadata critical to authentication of the evidence, or the metadata that tells what the document said before litigation started, and who made the change after the litigation started)   You don't want your client making that sort of mistake.

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All The Best,
 
Leonard Bucklin
Attorney at Law

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