This new E-Discovery toolkit - available as a downloadable zip file - will help accelerate the development of your organization's framework to meet the E-Discovery requirements of the recently updated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).

This No.2 toolkit contains documentation with a wealth of useful templates, and is based on the framework described in the first edition of E-Discovery and FRCP: A Pocket Guide (also contained in the kit).

The E-Discovery No.2 toolkit contains:

1. 1. Documentation toolkit with templates to help:
      
      
      • Prior to an E-Discovery event
        • Assessing organizational readiness
        • Making the business case
        • Project planning
        • Policy making
        • Key contact list
        • Training
        • Compiling an inventory of information
        • Establishing a procedural handbook
        • Implementing an early warning system
      • During a specific E-Discovery event
        • Instituting a litigation hold
        • Communicating a preservation hold to a third party
        • Preparing for the pre-conference meeting
        • Authorizing E-Discovery searches
        • Maintaining a chain of evidence log
        • Facilitating a postmortem meeting
      • Between E-Discovery events
        • E-Discovery drill planning
      • Evaluating E-Discovery Technology solutions
        • Soliciting proposals
        • Evaluating proposals
          
          
      • You will also receive a unique drafting support service and 12 months of automatic updates.
        
        
   2. E-Discovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: A Pocket Guide (Soft Cover)

The author, Bradley J. Schaufenbuel, is currently in the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer at Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc., a $4 billion bank holding company headquartered in Melrose Park, Illinois (NASDAQ: MBHI).  He was formally Senior Manager of I.T. Risk at Zurich Financial Services and prior to this, he held security leadership positions at Experian Information Solutions and Arthur Andersen LLP. In addition to this guide and toolkit, he has also co-authored multiple "For Dummies" books and has had articles published in professional journals on a variety of topics related to IT security and governance.  Bradley holds eleven professional designations in the areas of information security management, IT compliance, fraud examination, IT audit, computer forensics, ethical hacking, and project management, including the CISSP, CISM, CISA, PMP, ISSMP, ISSAP, CFE, CEH, CIFI, CSOXM, and CHS-III .  He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from DePaul University and is currently pursuing a Juris Doctorate degree in I.T. and privacy law from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.  Bradley also sits on the board of directors of two private corporations and a non-profit community center.