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Take control of your legal hold process
Exterro Legal Hold saves time and increases defensibility by allowing you to easily create, manage, and track legal holds and custodian questionnaires.
The world’s most innovative companies work with Exterro.
Orchestrate the legal hold process, from scoping and management to release.
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Exterro Legal Hold seamlessly integrates into your organizations’ existing data ecosystem, so you can accurately scope and effectively execute your legal holds and custodian interviews. With Exterro In-Place Preservation, you can easily preserve custodial and non-custodial data before or after issuing a hold.
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Boost defensibility
Ensure maximum hold compliance with one-click acceptances, electronic interviews, and automated reminders and escalations. Powerful reporting capabilities and robust audit trails mean you know exactly what’s happening at all times.
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Save time
Scope, draft, approve, and send legal holds in minutes. Automate time consuming tasks using templates, pre-set workflows, and proactive reporting.
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Increase internal transparency
The Legal Hold dashboard shows important information about holds, responses, and compliance by matter, department, manager, and custodian. Exterro’s responsible AI makes recommendations to improve compliance.
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Uncover the true scope of your legal hold with built-in comprehensive interviews.
Create highly-configurable interview templates and questionnaires to send to your custodians immediately upon issuing a hold. The electronic interview format makes it easy for custodians to respond, while Exterro logs all interview activity and responses for increased defensibility and fast and painless reporting.
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Reduce the risk of data spoliation caused by employee status changes with Employee Change Monitor.
Employee Change Monitor detects changes in employee status, such as termination, name or title change, and more, and then automatically takes corrective action by assigning and executing tasks, minimizing human error and saving time.
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Instantly improve custodian compliance with automated legal hold reminders and escalation notices.
With Exterro’s Legal Hold, you can customize automatic hold reminders to be sent to custodians, allowing them to accept their legal holds in one click. Still struggling to get custodians to respond? Send automatic escalation emails to their manager to encourage compliance.
Complementary Exterro Tools
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Compliance Portal
Simplify legal hold obligations and boost compliance by allowing custodians to view and acknowledge their legal holds from a single screen.
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Data Source Discovery
Automatically update the company data source catalog and associate data sources to employees, saving time and effort for both legal and IT teams.
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In-Place Preservation
Proactively protect and secure ESI from accidental deletion prior to collection.
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Employee Change Monitor
Proactively detect changes in employee status and automatically take corrective action in response to the employee status change.
"This is the tool that you need to use…When I took over the function of legal hold person, it was daunting to think of all the processes and things I would have to learn. It was hard for me to wrap my head around at the time. Having Exterro made it so much easier."
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Ready to see Exterro Legal Hold in action?
See a quick and free demo at your convenience.
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See How a Fortune 500 Insurance Giant Saw Massive Cost Savings with Exterro
A major global insurance company with over 35,000 employees invested in the Exterro platform to streamline e-discovery operations and save money.
“When Exterro came about—especially with Legal Hold, Matter Management, all the way through ECA, Collection, Production—it checked all the boxes. So eventually, we went with Exterro, and it’s been phenomenal.”
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Digital Forensics and E-Discovery Technology Lead
Related Resources
Learn more about legal holds and ways to improve your legal hold program below.
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Product Briefs
Exterro Legal Hold
Product brief that details the features, functionality and capabilities of Exterro Legal Hold.
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White Papers
4 Steps to Managing Legal Holds Defensibly
Learn the basics of managing legal holds with this checklist from the Exterro E-Discovery Action Plan.