C2C, a provider of email, file, and messaging management solutions, has announced the release of In-Place Legal Hold, the industry's first in-place legal hold capability for email, including PST files (also known as Outlook Archives).

In-Place Legal Hold allows IT teams and non-IT professionals alike to search, discover and immediately lock into a secure repository all emails and metadata--from laptops to mail servers to archives--irrespective of location. If the eDiscovery request comes to nothing, the data is simply discarded and the systems remain as before the in-place legal hold took place.

Email data is secured in a Microsoft Exchange and Outlook mailbox store, Public Folder or PST file without have to archive the data first and without needing to involve IT in the process. Non-IT professionals, such as compliance officers, records managers and legal counsel, can now pinpoint data according to a search requests and no longer need to wait for IT to identify data, issue preservation notices, secure and collect the items.

With In-Place Legal Hold, C2C's new Advanced Discovery application brings email focused Early Case Management to the eDiscovery market. Other features of the application include:

Early Case Assessment reports and graphs;

Sending and tracking of preservation notices;

Collection of data from mailboxes, PSTs and an archive;

Basic Review including tagging and syntax highlighting; and

Ability to export data.

Additional features that give added value to the IT team include advanced performance tracking and graphing through a Performance Dashboard, a new WebAdmin Console with enhanced Roles and Rights management and more PST management features including the ability to auto assign PST ownership based on customer specified criteria.