How keeping records too long can cost your firm in the long run.

The record-retention strategy for many law firms can be summed up in one short phrase:  "Better safe than sorry."  In practice this philosophy becomes "keep everything, forever."  The fact is, retaining everything forever can have tremendous negative consequences.  Storing documents in perpetuity can expose firms to fines and sanction, or legal action for bad faith, information spoilage or obstruction of justice. 

Create, format, convert and output – producing documents is a complex interplay of many different programs that does not always run smoothly, and every change requires time‐consuming reconfiguration. Not so when you automate and control the processes with higher level software.

With the growing volume and diversity of electronic documents, ensuring barrier-free access for anyone and everyone is taking on an additional sense of urgency. An individual with impaired sight has the same right to access document content as a sighted person. In fact, providing barrier-free access to electronic documents is not just a “nice-to-have” feature. In many jurisdictions, it is a legal requirement.

Clients demanding greater accountability from their law firms cannot tolerate the financial burden. Moreover, as stronger project management and QC controls take hold in the legal field with new tracking, metrics, and measurement assigned to monitor reviewers’ work, clients are increasingly demanding better results and performance which will increasingly only be achievable through more automated methods such as predictive coding.

Governing electronic content archives is a significant challenge for any organization. Data volumes are exploding, mobile and social computing are pervasive, and companies are moving to the cloud in droves. These factors are driving a shift from traditional, tactical, and legacy systems to new approaches capable of forming an intelligent understanding of all types of content. Read how organizations are replacing email-focused archives with a new breed of archive that can understand and govern all the latest forms of human-friendly information.

Business productivity requires efficient document driven processes. But creating an efficient process is by no means a simple task. Each step of a business process can contain a complex combination of information, human interactions and decisions, and the resulting output can affect countless subsequent processes throughout the business.

If Social Media Governance isn’t on your radar screen, it should be. Read this informative white paper that discusses how the social media is widening the scope of information management. As companies engage customers and prospects on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs, they become responsible for managing this latest form of ESI. Learn how you can create a go-forward plan for protecting your corporation from the latest information compliance threat: social media interactions.