Unless you are your own employee and your own customer, you’ll probably need to archive your emails properly. If you do any correspondence through email, all those discussions and agreements made in the email will be deemed discoverable by the courts. That means that the opposing litigants can ask for these relevant emails, and you will have to produce it or you may be fined.

FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) is the set of rules that govern and determine how and what is required during a civil litigation. It covers many aspects of litigation in great detail including pleadings, motions, disclosures etc. More importantly, the amendments made in 2006 cover the topic of ‘ediscovery’ specifically. Email archiving is intended to solve the ediscovery requirements for organizations so that they can be in compliance with this law. Learn more by reading this white paper.