Failure to formulate a policy that addresses these simple areas almost guarantees that the bad little email will get created and produced.
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Originally published by Matthew DeVries on Best Practices Construction Law blog.
Believe it or not, there are always a wealth of emails and other documents produced in litigation that help “make the case” for the other side.
Best Practices advises that you should have a written document management policy in place. This policy should define and describe the role of the following:
- Critical project documentation, such as correspondence, meeting minutes, daily reports and logs, calendars and diaries, accounting records, submittals, schedules, photographs, etc.
- Non-critical documentation, such as personal emails, instant messages, text logs, blog trails, website traffic logs, etc.
(more on best practices to avoid those "bad little emails"...)
