Practice Areas & Industries: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Records management, data governance, and litigation readiness are more important today than ever before. Legal requirements for records retention and information security compel companies to move beyond policy statements to demonstrable compliance. At the same time, the pervasiveness of e-discovery demands strategic and technological sophistication in deploying effective legal hold processes.

Our Records & Information Management group is an interdisciplinary team of attorneys, information technology experts, and records management professionals. Records & Information Management team members are at the forefront of the records management and e-discovery disciplines, with active involvement in the Association for Information and Image Management, the Association for Records Managers and Administrators, the Institute of Certified Records Managers, and the Sedona Conference.

We give clients the tools they need to create and sustain compliant processes for records retention, records management, data governance, and litigation readiness.

Services Available

To help our clients have a firmer grasp on their records and other data in the ordinary course of business and in advance of litigation, we provide services in the following areas:

• Records & Information Management - We help clients create and maintain compliant records retention scheduling. Our expertise and resources include our proprietary database of over 50,000 records retention legal requirements and legal considerations from the federal system and each of the 50 states. We also design or strengthen policies and processes for records management, records disposition, imaging and other records media conversion, email and data management, information privacy and security, and training and compliance assessment.

• Legal Hold Processes & Litigation Readiness - We help clients create and manage effective legal hold processes with deliverables such as our proprietary Data & Practice Mapping, legal hold process design, legal hold notice protocols, preservation plan strategies, departing employee protocols, and orphaned & legacy data source triage processes. Through our multidisciplinary expertise, we also enable clients to align ordinary course of business records and data management with litigation readiness processes, putting them ahead of the curve when litigation or governmental investigations arise.