E-Mail Retention for Lawyers
ZDNet has a great list of “classic clueless-user” stories submitted by IT folks. Here’s one that made me laugh:
4. We currently have a great policy for keeping e-mail to a minimum. It's only kept 90 days, then it's deleted, so if you want to save it past the retention period, you have to put it into a file somehow.
This has been in effect for several years, but amazingly, we had a couple of executives in the legal dept who built up 40,000 messages in their inboxes each, without having any deleted. I finally got the connection when the new "retention policy" was published. The company lawyers who wrote it had a line in the document that excluded themselves from the policy and made sure they could keep everything forever!
Does any one know if lawyers actually fall under a type of 'SEC' Compliance and how long they have to keep email? Or if they don't have to keep email?
Posted by: Consultant | January 11, 2009 at 09:41 PM