Description: Former employees,
participants and Individual Custodians who are no longer with the
company. These could be considered Third Party or Non-Party
Custodians excepting the assumption that the ESI is still owned by
the responding entity.
Metric: The metric is the time and
effort of IT, Legal and others required to locate and assess the
list of custodians and identify what ESI they once possessed as
well as the current location and status of any ESI that remain
accessible. Corporate retention policies and terminated employee
procedures will greatly affect the potential volume of
ESI.