If your firm doesn’t have a document retention policy, it’s something to put high on the list of priorities for the coming year. Whether starting a new initiative in data retention and compliance, or ...

Every company should have a well-designed document retention policy in place for various business and legal reasons. Perhaps the most important reason is to ensure compliance with the multitude of ...

There is no question that construction is a uniquely document-intensive industry. On every project, countless, lengthy, records are generated: contracts, specifications, daily reports, meeting minutes ...

Many companies have document retention policies that are known only to records and information technology employees. These companies overlook the fact that the reach of the records department or IT ...

What kind of organization do you work for, and what (in a nutshell) is your email retention policy? Our lawyers and I are trying to develop a retention policy of our own, and I'd like to present our ...

Most businesses have retention policies governing how long documents are to be retained before being destroyed or discarded. A growing number of businesses are extending their existing retention ...

Electronic documents will be retained as if they were paper documents. Therefore, any electronic files, including records of donations made online, that fall into one of the document types on the ...

For IT professionals, top management and their lawyers, the explosion in awareness and use of electronic documents in litigation presents great challenges. For example, the widespread use of business ...

CATEGORY: Administrative Requirement TYPE: Standard and Implementation Specification CITATION: 45 CFR 164.530 (j)(1) Standard: Documentation and 45 CFR 164.530(j)(2) Implementation Specification: ...

Case Western Reserve University requires that certain types of University records be retained for (and generally destroyed after) specific periods of time in accordance with legal and institutional ...

The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley regulations served as a wake-up call for CIOs to formalize document retention policies to meet compliance requirements. But regulatory demands-and the number of documents ...