A legal hold is the process during which an organization is required to preserve and not delete information that is relevant to a pending or anticipated legal action. 

During the processing stage of an e-discovery project, the metadata and text of documents are extracted so that the documents are fully text searchable. 

A litigation hold is a directive to individuals within a company to preserve ESI and documents that are potentially relevant to a legal matter. 

The collection stage of the e-discovery process refers to:

A forensic image of a computer hard drive is a bit-for-bit copy or mirror image of the hard drive. 

The phrase “litigation readiness” suggests that an organization has taken no steps to prepare for a potential lawsuit. 

Records and information management policies should:

A “hash value” is a numerical value assigned to a native file based on the unique contents and properties of that file and it functions as the digital fingerprint of that file.

It is not necessary to retain any documentation related to an e-discovery project. 

ESI is an acronym for :