August 2004 - Records Management
Records Management
Growing business and remaining competitive in a demanding and changing legal environment is one of your firm’s key business challenges. And a significant part of this challenge is how most efficiently and effectively to manage your records to protect and defend your clients and your firm. Thus, records management — the collection, organization, control and access to critical information within an organization — is an indisputably important strategic issue for your firm, one that demands significant time and knowledge gathering. Of course, the very thing that RM seeks to ease and tame — the crushing volume of paper and electronic documents — may make it difficult for you (or your firm’s current or potential records manager) to have the time to get up to speed. We hope the articles in this issue of Peer to Peer will serve as an easy-to-digest primer.
Growing business and remaining competitive in a demanding and changing legal environment is one of your firm’s key business challenges. And a significant part of this challenge is how most efficiently and effectively to manage your records to protect and defend your clients and your firm. Thus, records management — the collection, organization, control and access to critical information within an organization — is an indisputably important strategic issue for your firm, one that demands significant time and knowledge gathering. Of course, the very thing that RM seeks to ease and tame — the crushing volume of paper and electronic documents — may make it difficult for you (or your firm’s current or potential records manager) to have the time to get up to speed. We hope the articles in this issue of Peer to Peer will serve as an easy-to-digest primer.