From : Blog Entry >> Denise's Blog Entry If your law firm is undergoing a digital transformation, you’ll have learned that not everything can be digitized and put into electronic storage. All firms have a repository of original documents that need to be retained. The vast majority of these will be “wet ink signature” – typically relating to real estate, wills, trust funds, patents, copyright and trademark. How are they best managed? The challenge is that these documents must be preserved – maybe in safes or ideally in fire suppression More
From : Blog Entry >> Denise's Blog Entry Is your law firm in full control of data minimization? This question arises because in our first blog on this topic we set out the top ten reasons why firms need to destroy much more data than they do . In that piece we explained that excess data increases the likelihood of cyberattack and compliance breaches; it makes firms spend more than they need to on storage; and it hurts systems’ efficiency and firm productivity. Yet the evidence suggests that a large proportion of firms don’t More
From : Blog Entry >> Denise's Blog Entry In a world where data volumes are increasing exponentially, it’s surprising that nearly half of US law firms don’t even have a policy to manage data retention and disposition. The problem may be that firms haven’t grasped the dangers of excess data, and therefore why they should take data minimization seriously. To help bring firms some clarity, these are the top ten reasons why CIO’s need to destroy much more of the data they hold. 1. Excess data makes your firm a bigger target More