Article of interview with Afshin Behnia , President & CEO, Mitratech; Tom Klaff , CEO, Surety LLC; Dan Lucky , Vice President-Data Management Solutions and David Gaines , Vice President- Security, Microstrategies, Inc.; Bettina Tweardy Riveros , Associate General Counsel and Director of Product Development, Corporation Service Company (CSC); Karen Schuler , Vice President of Consulting, ONSITE3; Debra E. Weaver, Vice President-Marketing & Sales, TrialNet, Inc., posted on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, December 2007:

Editor: What legal trends in 2007 had the greatest impact on law departments’ technology solutions?

Behnia: On December 1, 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) took effect, requiring US organizations to address issues regarding electronically stored evidence at the outset of litigation. Rule 37(f) grants organizations a safe harbor for data destruction when it is due to routine operations and done in good faith – but this rule also requires that, at a minimum, organizations integrate legal hold procedures into their systematized frameworks….