Creating a case for legal hold is the first critical step in the eDiscovery process when litigation or an investigation is anticipated. One of the purposes of creating a case is that it acts as a container that allows admins to group multiple legal holds under one case. For more information, see our Help Center page on creating a case.

This API creates a new case in an organization.

Required scope

Rate limiting

Enterprise Guard only

This API is available only for Enterprise plan users with the Enterprise Guard add-on. You can only use this endpoint if you have both the Company Admin and eDiscovery Admin roles.