Check yourself before you wreck yourself: Document management systems and being Dispute Ready

Key Points:

The importance of the interaction between good corporate governance and sound document management cannot be overstated.

We've already discussed the concept of good corporate governance and the critical role that it plays in an organisation being Dispute Ready, and set out the six simple and immediate steps that an organisation should take in order to be Dispute Ready.

Corporate governance also is an important part of the second element in being Dispute Ready: document management.

With the onset of the age of email and continual streams of data in an organisation, document management has become a central and critical part of every dispute. In all disputes, identifying documents critical to the dispute is key.