Mark Diamond

March 19, 2012 | Inside Counsel

The great debate on who should own information governance continues. Legal believes that IT should own the information governance, including record retention, archiving and data deletion. Most records are electronic, so it should be ITs job, argues legal. The IT organization is equally certain this project should be owned by...

By Mark Diamond

6 minute read

March 07, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Companies that have effective information governance programs always have what I call the committee: a cross functional team from different departments working together.

By Mark Diamond

7 minute read

February 21, 2012 | Inside Counsel

One general counsel recently told me he would rather change a tire in the rain than work on a records management project.

By Mark Diamond

3 minute read

February 06, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Companies are increasingly embracing cloud computing, storing their email, files and other electronic information in a cloud storage service providers data center accessible via the Internet.

By Mark Diamond

3 minute read

January 23, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Data protection, RIM, information governanceso many names

By Mark Diamond

3 minute read

January 09, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Most companies have, or are developing, programs for records and information management (RIM), in-house e-discovery and the control of sensitive information such as privacy data and intellectual property.

By Mark Diamond

5 minute read

January 02, 2012 | Inside Counsel

For legal departments, the new year may not be much different from the last.

By Mark Diamond

3 minute read

November 28, 2011 | Inside Counsel

Much of the space in this column has covered how legal and IT departments can protect themselves from questionable technology vendors practices. Yet some legal departments do things that drive technology vendors crazy.

By Mark Diamond

7 minute read

November 21, 2011 | Inside Counsel

The holy grail of records management is automated classification taking people out of the record retention process and having computers automatically decide which electronic documents are which record types. Quite frankly, in the past, Ive had my doubts on auto-classification of records, but maybe its time to take a...

By Mark Diamond

6 minute read

October 31, 2011 | Inside Counsel

Cloud computing has significant information governance ramifications companies should consider before moving data to the cloud.

By Mark Diamond

8 minute read