If your company is party to any legal action these days, it probably involves a thorough investigation of all electronic missives--everything from documents and spreadsheets to email and instant messages. As CIO, your job is to know where every electronic document and messages resides and to know how to access them quickly. But you can save your company and your department a lot of headaches by completing one more critical task--working closely with your internal legal council to develop your company's policies for e-discovery. That involves defining a communication channel through which IT is brought into the discovery process as early as possible.

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