Three best practices to simplify eDiscovery exports and litigation holds with Google Vault
Gregory Anderson
Product Manager, Google Workspace
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SIGN UPWe hear from customers that flexibility to choose the approaches to eDiscovery processes that work best for them is paramount. Without flexibility, eDiscovery can be time consuming, resource-heavy, and costly. At Google, we’re committed to giving our Google Workspace customers choice when it comes to their workflows and business processes to mitigate the lift of eDiscovery. Workspace offers eDiscovery natively with built-in DLP, AI Classification, Trust Rules, IRM and sharing policies, as well as document discovery and retention controls to help organizations establish the policies that work best for their needs holistically.
Google Vault plays a key role serving customer needs in the areas of eDiscovery and information governance. Today, we’re pleased to highlight best practices to answer three top customer questions around streamlining eDiscovery and investigations workflows with Vault, with new technical integrations with partners.
How can I manage my large exports to prepare for further investigation?
Discovery and investigations can require very large exports that necessitate additional analysis to determine relevant information. Google Vault is an API-first solution that works in tandem with proven 3P eDiscovery applications. These applications provide a trusted external service to ingest these exports for processing, review, and analysis. Using the variety of search and filtering tools offered via 3P applications can save customers significant time and operational effort through the discovery process.
eDiscovery tools such as Relativity, Reveal, Everlaw, Exterro, Casepoint, and Disco provide customers with a seamless integration into Vault, facilitating the full eDiscovery funnel. Relativity, Everlaw and Reveal also offer additional integration through the GCP Marketplace to automate exports and retrieval from Vault within those applications.
As a best practice, leveraging one of these systems integrated with Vault can save your organization time and effort while performing successful discovery with your Workspace data.
How can I maintain my litigation holds across my different users and applications?
Litigation hold management can expand across multiple users, different Workspace applications, contain different start/end dates, and may require communication to the user. We have worked with popular eDiscovery providers allowing them to interact with Vault APIs. These applications help admins visualize their current holds, apply new holds, and remove holds when litigation has completed.
Relativity, Reveal, Casepoint, and Disco provide customers access to manage and visualize their holds using the Vault APIs preserving data in place in Workspace.
These integrations make it easier for customers to comply with legal hold requirements saving time and effort.
How do I better understand and refine the data in my exports?
Customers regularly need to post-process broad exports with the aim of determining relevance and shrinking the data footprint before continuing with a full-funnel eDiscovery solution. Third-party data management providers support customers with the tools needed to analyze their Vault exports for relevance.
Hanzo, Lighthouse, and Veritas provide customers additional tools to help process Vault exports for further downstream discovery steps.
This can help customers to more easily refine data earlier in the discovery process, saving hosting costs in later steps of the discovery funnel.
How can I get started to take advantage of these capabilities?
We’re pleased that many of our customers have been benefiting from these partner integrations for many years. To understand more about how you can leverage these capabilities, visit the different eDiscovery application sites below or speak to your Google representative.
