What is a litigation hold notice?

Likewise, what is a document hold notice?

A sample litigation hold notice (also known as alegal hold notice or document preservationnotice) from in-house counsel of a company facinglitigation, a government investigation, or an audit toemployees about their obligation to preserve, and prevent thedeletion or destruction of, relevant information andrecords.

One may also ask, is a litigation hold notice privileged? Generally, litigation hold notices areprivileged, protected by the attorney-clientprivilege or work product doctrine. However, theprivileged nature of litigation hold letters may belost if a party spoliates evidence (destroys evidence) or fails toobserve appropriate litigation hold procedures.

Considering this, what does it mean to be on a legal hold?

A legal hold is a process that an organizationuses to preserve all forms of relevant information when litigationis reasonably anticipated. A legal hold will beissued as a result of current or anticipated litigation, audit,government investigation or other such matter to avoid evidencespoliation.

What triggers a litigation hold?

Litigation hold letters are issued inanticipation of litigation instructing recipients topreserve relevant documents and other information. The duty topreserve relevant information is triggered whenlitigation is “reasonablyanticipated.”