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 ...

It takes time and money to create a document retention plan, but it’s even more costly to wait until litigation is pending to determine how to get needed information. “The work done on the front-end ...

In addition, there are business needs for retaining and disposing of records. So, what’s a compliance team to do? He recommends working with the business unit and other affected teams to write ...

Managing financial records can be overwhelming for small business owners. The question of whether to hold on to records for too long, long enough, or not long enough can be confusing. To avoid any ...

(L-R) Diana C. Manning, Benjamin J. DiLorenzo and Kyle A. Valente of Bressler, Amery & Ross. Courtesy photos Advancements in technology have fundamentally transformed the landscape for storing and ...

That phrase reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon from about a decade ago that depicted the “pointy-haired boss” confronting Alice, the engineer, about her exceeding the company’s permitted email storage.

In their Federal E-Discovery column, Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal discuss a recent decision from the District of Maryland which provides some guidance on the issue of whether organizations ...

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 ...

You've probably heard that you should hang onto your tax returns for three years. The truth is that tax record retention periods vary from three years to indefinitely depending on the types of ...

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 ...

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 ...