Legal IT Professionals interviewed Digital Reef’s Steve Akers about the e-Discovery challenges that face BP after the oil spill disaster in the Gulf region. Steve talks about the best strategy, information governance, and Early Case Assessment. The talk in legal circles has been that the BP disaster clearly demonstrates the need for companies – especially global companies – to have a strong eDiscovery strategy in-place. Why do you think that is? There are a numbers of issues, all pointing to the need for proactive measures to be taken in allowing a company like BP to be ready for eDiscovery to occur should they have a disastrous event .

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