By Kevin | March 19, 2010
Success in implementing a company wide records retention policy and program is predicated upon the parts working as a whole i.e. achieving buy-in at every level of the organization from the CEO to the employee.
Part of the role I play as consultant, is as mediator between IT, Legal and Records Management. When these three main spokes are communicated then the wheels will move.
Recent studies have shown that three of the main factors in achieving e-discovery and thus records management success are success are:
Legal involvement in records management
Collaboration with IT to ensure consistent practices
Proactive efforts to apply retention best practices to electronic records
If you work within one of these departments and need help achieving success, please feel free to contact me today for a free consultation to see how I can best serve the needs of your organization.
By Kevin | March 18, 2010
Just Skimming through a 2010 records management benchmarking report and finding that there has not been much change in the percentage of companies that have taken the initiative to get formal records management policies in place.
One of the core solutions that I provide is helping your organization to achieve RM best practices through the implementation of technology. However, technology is not enough and you need retention policies and schedules in place.
If you are in need of updating your records management policies, I am here to advise.
By Kevin | March 18, 2010
A colleague of mine presented at the NJ Tech Council Cloud Computing Seminar last month. For those of you who did not brave traveling during the snowstorm, he has kindly posted his Aviator’s Guide to the Cloud [pdf] on his bio page.
Posted in Events, Legal | Tagged cloud |
By Kevin | March 17, 2010
A properly executed Email File Plan can help meet specific organizational goals including:
Compliance : Effectively meet general business and legal recordkeeping requirements
Litigation Readiness: Ease the Burden on E-Discovery preparedness; enable effective litigation hold and discovery processes
Security: Secure email by centralizing storage and maintaining overall access to employee email
Operational Efficiency and Employee Productivity: Simplicity, ease of use and access for end users
Costs: Reduce Storage by expunging non-critical email when obsolete; reduce duplication of messages and files
Further Information:
Legal Implications
Approaches
Assessment
Records Retention
By Kevin | January 24, 2010
Almost half of the e-discovery opinions concerned sanctions, and sanctions were awarded in 70% of those cases, including 10 cases with terminating sanctions and five cases sanctioning counsel.
http://www.gibsondunn.com/Publications/Pages/2009YearEndElectronicDiscoveryUpdate.aspx
By Kevin | January 24, 2010
Over the course of the last 5 years since this site has been on hiatus I have worked for organizations that have had extremely restrictive social media policies. Free of those policies and back on my feet, I am hoping to resume blogging on topics of interest.