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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, I had the good fortune to moderate a Web seminar dealing with document retention. Not all retention is good. So many permutations, so little time. Let’s start with the fact that more than 80 ...

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 ...

Following up on my last posting, this week I talk about the basic elements of a document retention policy. While a review of the broad range of applicable laws cannot be addressed here, there are ...

Internal privacy experts worried that not having a corporate records retention policy could violate U.S. and EU laws. Years later, the company still doesn’t have one. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance ...

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: ...

The following article is excerpted from The Industry Standard. Apple has sold enterprise-class storage hardware and software for years, but the company has yet to embrace systematic e-mail and ...

Each department in the county has an informal document retention policy, but as a result of state law, the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners approved an official document retention policy, ...