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 [...]
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Discovery Success
Records Management Best Practices
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 [...]
Aviator’s Guide to the Cloud
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.
Email File Plans
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 [...]
2009 E-Discovery Trends
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
Hello 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.