where employment law meets emerging technology
The price of data storage and sophisticated analytics are dropping. This will herald a sea-change in how employment cases are litigated, including both class actions (initially) and individual cases (eventually). Employment lawyers will need to:
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Data Governance: Controls and Culture
As said, ESI is an increasingly understood and litigated issue. What requires
much more thought by employment lawyers is data governance. Data governance is the system of rules and procedure that relate to how an enterprise’s ESI is stored, managed, used, merged, deleted, and transferred.
The Basics
Enterprises of all sizes store troves of information in many different 
forms and formats about their employees — and these data pools will undoubtedly multiply over the coming years. Employment lawyers will be required to interact with technical personnel to assess preservation and if necessary, supervise production.
So, what’s an employment lawyer to do? Turn to data governance!
Let’s first look at some basics first, and then, in my next post, we will turn to the heart of this area: data governance for employment lawyers.
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