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Part of the business of your agency is generating, receiving, storing, and accessing documents. Those documents can take form of digital information or be paper version.

In today's litigation environment, you might as well expect that you will receive a California Public Records Act Request, a subpoena, and a perservation of evidence letter at some point in the process. The challenge is knowing where relevant, responsive, and non-privileged documents reside and having the ability to access them easily.

Documents - particularly those that are electronic - can be dynamic and reycylable. What can you do to help ensure you are handling, retaining, and producing critical documents correctly.

In today's episode, we'll talk about storing, retrieving, and responding with both digital items and paper versions. We'll also talk about the ways predatory lawyers are using various document discovery techniques to get around normal Code of Civil Proceduere rules. 

In this episode: 

• The use of CPRA pre-claims and pre-litigation 
• Triggers for preserving documentation
• The use of outside electronic discovery vendors
• The importance of staff understanding the types of documents that are being searched
• A big secret for locating information

THE FINE PRINT
This podcast is for general information only and not intended to be legal advice nor the formation of a lawyer-client relationship. The views, information, and opinions expressed on our podcast are Scott’s and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of any other person, agency, organization or company. Finally, we know that a few dastardly plaintiff's lawyers will get their hands on this. So . . . let's be clear: Don't even think of using the information in this podcast to sue public agencies because this podcast is not intended nor shall it be construed to give any person any legal or equitable rights, remedies or claims.

Music: ”Dangerous" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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