Last date modified: 2025-Oct-16

Managing Legal Hold workspace security

To use Relativity Legal Hold, you need to configure the workspace security.

See these related topics:

Accessing and configuring Legal Hold

Once you've installed Legal Hold and the Portal, you should see the following Legal Hold application tabs in your workspace:

Legal Hold includes all pages available with a base Relativity install.

Entities
Legal Hold
- Projects
- Communications
- Reports
- Question Responses
- Mailbox
- Project Reminder
- Custodian Status Dashboard
- Tasks
Libraries
- Questionnaires
- Questions
- Attachments
- Scheduled Reports
Legal Hold Admin (Relativity tab)
- Legal Hold Settings
- Global Reminder
- Roles
- Custodian Portal Authentication Provider
- Item Selectors

Legal Hold template

Legal Hold ships with a default template entitled, Legal Hold Template in the Projects tab. You can create a new project from scratch or use this template to customize your new project.

To create a project from a template you must have edit rights on the project object.

When creating a project from a template, the following items carry over:

Project details—this includes all of the Project response level fields.
Associated communications with details—the template includes the following communications:
- Acknowledge Email Template—an example communication that includes an acknowledge email merge field inside the body of the text for a custodian to acknowledge the legal hold without further navigation.
- Alert Notice Template—an example communication that notifies anyone in the Alert Group that a custodian might have potential involvement in a legal hold or matter.
- Legal Hold Notice Template—an example communication that notifies custodians of an anticipated (or actual) legal hold and contains a link to the custodian portal where the custodian can acknowledge their participation in the hold or that they've received the notice.
- Legal Hold Release Notice—an example communication that notifies on-hold custodians that they have been released from the hold or project.
Associated questionnaires—the Legal Hold Notice Template communication contains the Legal Hold Questionnaire Template questionnaire that ships with the template. This questionnaire contains typical questions that a company might want to collect information from a custodian, such as whether they had prior knowledge of the hold, or if they have access to electronic documents that may pertain to the hold.

Legal Hold preserves item-level security on the above items for the new project, including communications and questionnaires. See Managing workspace security.

Managing workspace security

The Legal Hold custom permissions are independent from the System Admin group and aren't automatically assigned to the group. For Relativity System Administrators or Workspace Admin Group members to have access to the functions controlled by the Legal Hold Application, you must add these users to another security group or add a new group with access to the Legal Hold Application. When Legal Hold is installed to a workspace Relativity creates a Legal Hold Security Admins group where you can add users.

The Legal Hold application security is set at the workspace and item level. For more information, see Security and permissions.

We recommend configuring the security permissions on your Legal Hold workspace as soon as you install Relativity Legal Hold. See Securing a project for more information.

When you install Legal Hold into a workspace, Relativity creates a Legal Hold Security Admins group. This group will have all Legal Hold permissions enabled by default. You can add users into this group. You will also be able to create new groups or give existing groups Legal Hold permissions by selecting the custom Legal Hold permissions. For more information on the Legal Hold permissions, see Securing a project.

For a Relativity Legal Hold user to run and complete a project, certain permissions need to be set. See the table below for the security permissions to run a Legal Hold project.

Object Security	Tab Visibility	Other Settings
Attachments – View, Edit, Add Communication – View, Edit, Delete, Add Custodian Portal Authentication Provider - Custodian Role – View, Edit, Delete, Add Custodian Status – View, Edit, Delete, Add Entity – View, Add Field – View, Add Add Field Choice By Link Global Reminder – View, Add Job Schedule - View, Edit, Delete, Add Legal Hold Application Permissions – View Select all check boxes Legal Hold Selector Configurations - View, Edit, Delete, Add Legal Hold Selectors - View Select all check boxes Legal Hold Task - View, Edit, Delete, Add Preservation Case – View, Edit, Add Preservation Case Source – View, Edit, Delete, Add Preservation Custodian Hold – View, Edit, Delete, Add Preservation Custodian Status – View, Edit, Delete, Add Preservation Custodian Target - View, Edit, Delete, Add Preservation Hold Settings – View, Edit, Delete, Add Preservation Source – View, Edit, Delete, Add Preservation Target Discovery Status - View, Edit, Delete, Add Preservation Target Filter - View, Edit, Delete, Add Preserve Product – View, Edit, Delete, Add Preserve Product Source – View, Edit, Delete, Add Project – View, Edit, Delete, Add Project Health - View, Edit, Delete, Add Project Questionnaires - View, Edit, Delete, Add Project Questionnaires Report Sub View - View Project Reminder - View, Edit, Delete, Edit Question – View, Edit, Delete, Add Questionnaire – View, Edit, Delete, Add Questionnaire Question – View, Edit, Delete, Add Questionnaire Response – View, Edit, Delete, Add Questionnaire Response Answer – View Report – View, Edit, Delete, Add Roles - View, Edit, Delete, Add Scheduled Communication - View, Edit, Delete, Add Schedule Report – View, Add	Entities Legal Hold Projects Communications Reports Question Responses Mailbox Project Reminder Custodian Status Dashboard Tasks Legal Hold Libraries Questionnaires Questions Attachments Scheduled Reports Legal Hold Admin Legal Hold Settings Global Reminder Preservation Hold Settings Roles Custodian Portal Authentication Provider Item Selectors	Admin Operations View All Audits Manage Object Types* Use Pivot/Chart**

*If you are installing the Legal Hold application without Processing and Analytics, you will also need the Admin Operations - Manage Object Types permission enabled to use the project wizard.

** Add to allow a group to see dashboards.