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 ...

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 ...

It’s no secret: Public agencies are inundated with files. A rise in digital records coupled with the use of personal devices, email accounts and diverse communication channels has lead electronic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Information that most people are not even aware of is proving a rich source of damaging information in legal disputes. This information, called metadata, is part of all electronically created ...

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, ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...