## Q13 key (Litigation Hold, drafting)
Score the two documents against this checklist; each omission is a candidate material failure because each maps to a distinct loss of evidence or a sanction path.
1. Hold reaches the correct custodians: Sara Okafor and her six, both Fenwick contractors, Marcus Bell (departing), sales and support personnel on the Ridgeline account, IT, and the records owner for the shared drive.
2. Subject matter and date range: VX-9 sensor design, firmware, testing, complaints, and Ridgeline communications, approximately three years to present.
3. Personal-device messaging expressly covered: auto-delete must be disabled or content collected now; the group thread named; contractor devices included through Fenwick.
4. Slack 45-day deletion: suspension or export directed.
5. Test-bench telemetry 21-day rollover: collection ordered before the cycle destroys the incident-period data.
6. Marcus Bell: Friday reimaging halted, laptop imaged, 30-day email deletion suspended.
7. Weekend shared-drive purge: cancelled or scoped away from relevant folders.
8. Vendor-held sources: CRM, support-ticket platform (12-month attachment retention) preserved by instruction to the vendor.
9. Process integrity: no custodian self-selection; preserve in place; acknowledgment required with a named contact; no merits argument or admissions in the notice.
10. Action memo: names an owner and deadline per task and correctly identifies the most time-critical action as the personal-device auto-delete (one-week destruction cycle already running), with Bell's Friday reimaging and the weekend purge immediately behind it. An answer choosing one of those two as most urgent with sound reasoning is acceptable; omitting the auto-delete entirely is not.