Public Sector Legal Workflows: A Comprehensive Guide

With public sector agencies facing a 333% increase in public record requests (PRRs) since 2018, they can certainly benefit from following defined processes for key legal workflows. With requests also growing larger and encompassing multiple data formats from emails and PDFs to texts and video, government organizations need to be able to handle PRRs and legal workflows like e-discovery efficiently.

With this comprehensive guide, government employees don’t need to create these workflows from scratch. This resource compiles workflows for the e-discovery process, then provides a public record request workflow, which mirrors the fundamental structure of optimized e-discovery processes. These checklists can help train new team members, ensure veterans are following best practices, and provide the cornerstone of your defensibility and compliance argument. With this resource, you will learn:

• Key roles and responsibilities for various team members at public agencies
• How to perform the step-by-step tasks needed to conduct defensible e-discovery
• How public records requests mirror the e-discovery process