Legal Research, eDiscovery, Litigation

Litigation happens. Whether it is from unhappy customers, vendors, employees, or stockholders or even from being out of compliance with industry regulations or legislation.

When it happens, there are usually investigations into vast amounts of communications, many of these are historical e-mails from certain individuals, or with certain subject matter, or within a certain timeframe. There are many variables by which a case may want information searched.

You need to hire expensive legal investigators, to spend many hours manually looking through thousands of emails for relevant data. And if the user deleted it, it is gone.

Secondarily, if you manage the legal department, you want to reduce the corporation's liability and risk potential in every way possible. Email Acceptable Usage Policies are an important part, but without true knowledge of email use and abuse patterns, there is no way to truly enforce the policy, which leads to increased exposure.

The MailMeter Solution:
With MailMeter you can perform your own investigation searches, on your own timeline and without the expensive legal fees associated with outside professionals.

Searches can be done for subject line words, attachment types, and with our MailMeter Forensic product, even message body and attachment text. A full history of all incoming, outgoing and internal emails and user-deleted emails is archived and is easily searchable by authorized users.

Your legal staff can perform extensive, multi-faceted forensic research on all email communications immediately, all through an easy to use, secure, web-based interface.

Important Questions to ask your Legal Counsel
As an executive, you should be very concerned at the lack of infrastructure, process and controls for archiving email in your organization. You should ask your management team these important questions. If they cannot answer these questions, you may be placing your company at serious risk.

1. What would be the cost or damage if your company had to pay penalty fines, or if you were fined or sanctioned for non-compliance?
2. Do you have an Email Acceptable Usage Policy? Do all of your employees know it?
3. How do you know when your policy has been broken? How do you measure, manage and enforce your policy?
4. How many times has an employee emailed confidential information in error? Or on purpose?
5. How do you know if employees are emailing offensive material to others within or outside the company?
6. What percentage of your company email is non-work related?
7. How many gigabytes of pictures, music and movie files travel through your company each week?