Legal Industry Survey on Collaboration Data

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1. Organization Type

Small Business

Service Provider

Law Firm

Private/Public Corporation

Government/Public Agency

Other (please specify)

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2. Litigation Profile (Required.)

0 to 1 Matters / Month

2 to 5 Matters / Month

6 to 10 Matters / Month

10+ Matters / Month

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3. What is your organization’s primary messaging collaboration platform in use for your business communications?
(Required.)

Google Chat

Workplace by Facebook

Slack

Microsoft Teams

We use a combination of platforms

We use little or no collaboration platforms

Other

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4. How integral are collaboration platforms to your organization for messaging today? (Required.)

We can’t live without it

Certain teams can’t live without it

Nice to have, but we still rely on email

We don’t use collaboration platforms for business communications

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5. How integral will collaboration platforms be for your organization in 12 months? (Required.)

About the same

Less dependent

More dependent

Won’t live without it

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6. Are you or your clients applying retention policies to your messaging collaboration content? (Required.)

We/Our Clients have organization-wide retention policies in place for collaboration content

We/Our Clients are hoping to implement retention policies within the next 12 months

We/Our Clients are saving everything forever, and have no plans to change in the near term

We/Our Clients leave it up to users to decide how long to retain

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7. How are you/your clients principally preserving collaboration content today? (Required.)

Saving everything in place

Selectively preserving in place

Selectively collecting to preserve when required

No means to preserve today

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8. How conﬁdent are you in your ability to defensibly preserve collaboration content when required? (Required.)

Very conﬁdent

Somewhat conﬁdent

Somewhat unconﬁdent

Very unconﬁdent

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9. Does your (or your client’s) organization consider messaging collaboration content generally within the scope of discovery? (Required.)

Never considered for discovery

We anticipate it will be relevant in the future, but not taking any action yet

We’re preserving it, but not yet being asked to produce

Preserving and occasionally responding to requests to produce

Preserving and frequently responding to requests to produce

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10. How do you think your response to the previous question will change in the next 12 months? (Required.)

About the same

Some increased interest and/or requests

Signiﬁcant increased interest and/or requests

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11. How are you principally responding to requests for production or internal investigations when it comes to collaboration data? (Required.)

No need to respond (very few requests for production or internal investigations)

We search in the native app and take screenshots

We do bulk exports or collections, and turn it over to a third party

We’ve built our own tools and processes to review and produce internally (DIY)

We use built-in search and discovery capabilities of the native app

We’ve invested in a third-party software solution to collect, review and produce

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12. How conﬁdent are you in your existing processes to eﬃciently collect and produce collaboration content in response to discovery obligations? (Required.)

Very conﬁdent

Somewhat conﬁdent

Somewhat unconﬁdent

Very unconﬁdent

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13. In the next twelve months, do you/your client plan to invest in a solution to defensibly preserve and/or collect collaboration data for ediscovery or to conduct internal investigations? (Required.)

Yes, deﬁnitely

Maybe, depending on demand

We’re ﬁne with our current approach

We already have systems in place

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14. When you think of your organization's/client's use of collaboration platforms, what are you most worried about?

Optional Questions

Legal Industry Survey on Collaboration Data

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* 1. Organization Type

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* 2. Litigation Profile (Required.)

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* 3. What is your organization’s primary messaging collaboration platform in use for your business communications? (Required.)

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* 4. How integral are collaboration platforms to your organization for messaging today? (Required.)

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* 5. How integral will collaboration platforms be for your organization in 12 months? (Required.)

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* 6. Are you or your clients applying retention policies to your messaging collaboration content? (Required.)

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* 7. How are you/your clients principally preserving collaboration content today? (Required.)

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* 8. How conﬁdent are you in your ability to defensibly preserve collaboration content when required? (Required.)

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* 9. Does your (or your client’s) organization consider messaging collaboration content generally within the scope of discovery? (Required.)

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* 10. How do you think your response to the previous question will change in the next 12 months? (Required.)

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* 11. How are you principally responding to requests for production or internal investigations when it comes to collaboration data? (Required.)

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* 12. How conﬁdent are you in your existing processes to eﬃciently collect and produce collaboration content in response to discovery obligations? (Required.)

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* 13. In the next twelve months, do you/your client plan to invest in a solution to defensibly preserve and/or collect collaboration data for ediscovery or to conduct internal investigations? (Required.)

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* 14. When you think of your organization's/client's use of collaboration platforms, what are you most worried about?

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* 15. Email Address (Required if you want a copy of the survey results)

1. Organization Type

2. Litigation Profile (Required.)

3. What is your organization’s primary messaging collaboration platform in use for your business communications?
(Required.)

4. How integral are collaboration platforms to your organization for messaging today? (Required.)

5. How integral will collaboration platforms be for your organization in 12 months? (Required.)

6. Are you or your clients applying retention policies to your messaging collaboration content? (Required.)

7. How are you/your clients principally preserving collaboration content today? (Required.)

8. How conﬁdent are you in your ability to defensibly preserve collaboration content when required? (Required.)

9. Does your (or your client’s) organization consider messaging collaboration content generally within the scope of discovery? (Required.)

10. How do you think your response to the previous question will change in the next 12 months? (Required.)

11. How are you principally responding to requests for production or internal investigations when it comes to collaboration data? (Required.)

12. How conﬁdent are you in your existing processes to eﬃciently collect and produce collaboration content in response to discovery obligations? (Required.)

13. In the next twelve months, do you/your client plan to invest in a solution to defensibly preserve and/or collect collaboration data for ediscovery or to conduct internal investigations? (Required.)

14. When you think of your organization's/client's use of collaboration platforms, what are you most worried about?

15. Email Address (Required if you want a copy of the survey results)