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About the Author
Lee R. Nemchek, CRM, is the Vice President of Enterprise Records
Management at Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. She previously served
22 years as a law librarian and records manager for an international law
firm. Lee holds a master's degree in library science from the University of
Southern California. She has authored numerous publications, including
"Records Management in the Legal Environment: A Handbook of Practice
and Procedure." Lee can be contacted at lnemchek@oaktreecapital.com.
It began with the events in New York City on September
11, 2001, when many businesses lost both physical and electronic
records, continued through the Arthur Andersen document
shredding scandal and found critical mass in the passage of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which requires strict recordkeeping
practices and stiff penalties for noncompliance. Over a decade has
passed, and records management continues to mature.
Those of us in information governance
will remember the first decade of the
21st century as a period when corporate
records management came of age as a
professional discipline.
The Maturation of RIM
into IG in Law Firms
