Slack Discovery: Key Issues and Challenges | Practical Law

Slack Discovery: Key Issues and Challenges | Practical Law

A Practice Note addressing Slack, a popular cloud-based team collaboration and messaging platform, and the issues and challenges surrounding discovery of Slack content. This Note discusses the nature of a party's Slack account, who may authorize the export of a party's Slack data, the accessibility of deleted Slack messages, the formats in which a user can export Slack data, and best practices to ensure that parties can efficiently produce and obtain Slack data during discovery.

Slack Discovery: Key Issues and Challenges

Practical Law Practice Note w-024-4353 (Approx. 10 pages)

Slack Discovery: Key Issues and Challenges

by Philip Favro, Innovative Driven with Practical Law Litigation
MaintainedUSA (National/Federal)
A Practice Note addressing Slack, a popular cloud-based team collaboration and messaging platform, and the issues and challenges surrounding discovery of Slack content. This Note discusses the nature of a party's Slack account, who may authorize the export of a party's Slack data, the accessibility of deleted Slack messages, the formats in which a user can export Slack data, and best practices to ensure that parties can efficiently produce and obtain Slack data during discovery.