Legal Hold: What's New

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Latest Features

As of version 65741 (January, 2025)

Hold Notifications

What

Improved sending notifications like reminders and escalations based on the custodian issue date and changed the Hold scheduling UI.

Why

To make the scheduling more transparent and make it easier to add custodians to an issued hold.

What

Notifications are now based on the custodian issue date/ time, and within the hold schedule settings, you can view per custodian when notifications will be sent.

As of version 63446 (July, 2024)

Escalation Notification

What

Changed the Escalation notification schedule to support escalations for custodians that are added later on.

Why

To make sure all custodians that are added after the Hold was issued, will move to the escalation workflow automatically if no responses are received.

How

Escalations are now based on Custodian issue date/time and no longer on Hold issue date/time.

 

As of version 60729 (January, 2024)

Updated Custodian Reports

What

Custodian Notes are now fully exported when using the standard export option in the Custodian overview in the Hold.

As of version 59015 (December, 2023)

Add Notes to a Custodian

What

Notes can now be added to Custodians.

Why

To assist in organization and searching.

How

Open the Custodian Tab from within Hold Management> Click the Note Icon>Enter the note and click Save.

As of version 59856 (December, 2023)

Custom Reply Email Address now available in Email Integration

What

You can now send messages from a designated email address. When recipients click the reply button, their responses will be directed to the specified reply address.

Why

To provide an option to initiate emails from your personal address, while replies are directed to, for instance, a centralized legal department mailbox.

How

When setting up the profile:

Click Show More and the Change icon. The User Reply Address window will open.

Enter the reply address that you wish to use> check the box> click Save.

As of version 59856 (December, 2023)

Labels now an Option

What

Labels can be added to matters, holds and custodians.

Why

To assist in organization and searching.

How

Open Matter Management>Click the Label Icon>Enter the Label Name.

Open Hold Management>Click the Label icon>Enter the Label Name.

Open the Custodian Tab from within Hold Management> Click the Label Icon>Enter the Label Name.

As of version 59178 (November, 2023)

Non-Custodial Groups (Teams, Sharepoint, Shared Mailboxes) now available in Preservation

What

You can now perform in-place preservations for M365 Teams, SharePoint and Shared Mailboxes.

Why

To simplify the preservation of Teams, SharePoint sites and Shared Mailboxes.

How

Set up the new M365 Preservation Explorer integration, create your new preservation locations and select these in locations in your Hold to start preserving your valuable information.

As of version 58681 (November, 2023)

Pasting Lists in Grid and Report Filters

What

  • You can paste a list of email addresses in the column filter option to quickly add custodians to a hold. No need to select these individually. Just paste your list of email addresses and all custodians are selected. This functionality has been extended to quickly select multiple values to all filters in the grids, selection options and other filters.

  • You can simply paste a list of custodian names or email addresses in the custodian filter of a Report and all custodians are automatically selected.

Why

To speed up the process and eliminate the need to manually select individual records.

How

Open Hold Management>Select your Hold> Click Custodian Tab>Copy list and Paste in the Filter On field.

Open Reports>Select Custodian Report>Open List view>Paste copied list in Filter Field.

As of version 58548 (November, 2023)

Updates to Branding

What

LEGAL HOLD rebranding

Why

Application branding now reflects that LEGAL HOLD is a Reveal product.

How

• Changed LEGAL HOLD to

• Updated logo

• Refreshed color scheme