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About the Author
Lisa J. Berry-Tayman, Sr. Privacy and Information Governance Advisor
at IDT911 Consulting (CIPP/US), is a former practicing attorney and
former assistant attorney general. Lisa has vast experience assisting
organizations in information governance and compliance, privacy,
security, and e-discovery and speaks on these topics at corporate, legal,
governmental and university events in the United States and Canada.
Contact her at lberrytayman@idt911consulting.com.
Information governance (IG) can describe
how firms manage and dispose of client
information in a responsible, defensible
manner once its usefulness has expired.
It's important because the way law firms currently operate
— indefinitely keeping all client documents, including client-generated
information turned over in response to discovery — could be in direct
opposition with their clients' information governance best practices.
When clients follow their own information governance program
and defensibly dispose of information, they can answer honestly that
Are You the Weak
Link in Your Client's
IG Program?
