18 Surviving legal processes

This chapter covers

  • The process of legal discovery
  • The role telemetry plays in legal eDiscovery
  • How to work with lawyers successfully

This chapter is unlike any other in this book because it isn’t about dispassionate technology or the virtual arm wrestling of setting internal policies. This chapter is about an event that most technologists won’t encounter in their careers—legal processes that make them the expert on the spot—so they’re horribly unprepared when it happens to them. I want to prepare you for this event so if the unlikely happens, you will respond from a place of competence rather than shocked and reactive surprise.

Warning This chapter is not about turning you into a lawyer; this chapter is about ...

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