Litera CAM Litigation Hold vs Q1 Defensible Legal Hold

Litera CAM Litigation Hold helps firms identify, notify people about, track, and preserve information subject to legal holds. The Unified Project Directory provides a place to track holds across supported collaboration systems, while teams can designate custodians and require notifications, surveys, and acknowledgments. The module covers active matters and retrospective holds involving older matters, groups of matters, time periods, or custodians. Held iManage or NetDocuments content can be locked, declared as a record, made read-only, or exported as a snapshot to cloud storage or a network drive; held material can also be preserved in a separate repository. When a hold ends, firms can release the data and resume usual disposition policies. Litigation Hold is an add-on for CAM C3 and above licenses and is available for iManage and NetDocuments. CAM is a cloud-hosted SaaS platform with integrations including Microsoft 365 systems and file shares. Litera describes CAM as SOC 2 Type II compliant and within the scope of its ISO 27001:2013 certification and controls. Pricing is on request.

Q1 Defensible Legal Hold is an application suite for legal hold management, data preservation, and data collection. It manages customizable holds from issuance through release, including custodian and administrator notices, scheduled reminders, escalations, timeline notices, release notifications, and system-wide reporting. Automated procedures apply legal-hold metadata to connected repositories while allowing continued data use. Other automated processes can cull, collect, validate, and preserve copies of potentially relevant artifacts. Q1 says its backend engages with more than 200 source data repositories and names Nuix and Relativity as downstream processing and review integrations. The suite includes notice creation, management, escalation, and auditing functions and is presented for legal firms and corporations. Q1 describes the workflows as defensible and court admissible, but does not name a security certification or compliance standard. The product pages do not specify operating systems, deployment options, mobile apps, or an API. Pricing is on request, with a demo or contact route offered.