Mustang, does your work involve much on electronic discovery processes for client work?

Or your reference to metadata is trying to find information using appropriate metadata fields or trace the electronic breadcrumb history of a document?

Honest, I think the most underrated person in the electronic discovery process...is the corporation's records manager. It is this person who, if document management systems and policies are put into place properly, s/he has the widest breadth of knowledge (some of it is highly detailed) for the parent organization on document workflows flowing in and out and within the organization...and to other parties. The person can have unbelievable knowledge of the flow, some content of documentation amongst parties...because alot of the documentation must be centralized and kept for specific number of years by law.

It could be complicated for an external legal team to establish the working interrelationships amongst people where documents are produced, shared, etc. And sometimes those people are no longer with the organization. But if the records manager is around in a client firm long enough, they might hold one of the 'keys' to the search process.

I saw so much as the records/documents manager. And I was granted access to all....emails if I needed it.

Was there litigation for our organization. Several. Large construction projects ..usually are famous for construction claims.
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