The Hunton & Williams LLP records and information management lawyers regularly advise clients on global, company-wide records and information management issues. We prepare related policies, procedures and guidelines to meet our clients' individual needs in the United States and around the globe. We maintain an extensive body of research on legal retention periods and understand the business imperatives that might warrant a retention period where one is not required by law. We are well-versed in the legal and business issues regarding records security and have experience preparing policies, contracts and court documents to help protect our clients' proprietary information, including their intellectual property and other competitively sensitive information. We also have global expertise on the privacy and data protection laws that impact records management, and advise multinational clients on compliance with laws governing the collection, maintenance and disclosure of personally identifiable information, including EU data protection requirements. In addition, we frequently advise clients on compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and e-discovery issues, including spoliation of evidence. Because of our extensive experience in the records and information management arena, Hunton & Williams lawyers can perform records and information management services in an efficient, cost-effective manner.
Hunton & Williams' Records and Information Management practice offers comprehensive, high-quality legal services to businesses with varying needs. Our skills enable clients to achieve corporate policy goals and meet legal requirements while maximizing business flexibility.
Who We Are
Our lawyers have underlying subject matter expertise in banking & finance laws, consumer protection laws, intellectual property requirements, international law, tax law, health care law, regulatory law and litigation. In addition to our legal experience, many of our lawyers have strong technical backgrounds and hands-on business experience. The breadth of our experience allows us to effectively advise clients on all aspects of records and information management, including information security and privacy.
Records Management Practice
We represent a diverse group of clients including consumer goods companies, technology companies, banks and other financial institutions, publishers, health care providers, insurance providers, government agencies and non-profit organizations.
Our lawyers advise clients on a wide variety of records and information management issues. Our services have included:
- Preparing comprehensive records management programs, including policies, procedures, guidelines and training modules for a global technology company, a major consumer goods company, and a multinational holding company and certain of its operating companies.
- Preparing a comprehensive records management program for a government agency with a workforce of over 700,000 employees.
- Preparing records retention schedules for global financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies.
- Developing an information management program and records security policies, including privacy guidelines and trade secret criteria, for protection of a multinational company's intellectual property and business proprietary and privileged information.
- Preparing electronic communications policies and computer use policies for numerous clients.
- Advising clients in connection with litigation-related records management issues, including spoliation.
- Preparing policies for issuing and enforcing legal holds post-Zubulake and creating legal hold notices for numerous clients.
- Advising multinational companies on the development and implementation of electronic records management solutions, including online systems for managing contracts and online systems for retaining and managing records subject to preservation orders.
- Advising major consumer goods companies in connection with audits of records management program compliance.
- Advising clients on records management issues arising in connection with outsourcing and other third-party-related ventures.
- Negotiating and drafting contractual provisions relating to privacy and information management for numerous companies.
- Preparing RFPs in connection with the outsourcing of information technology services and negotiating and drafting records storage agreements for a major consumer goods company.
- Advising companies on existing records inventories and making recommendations regarding retention or destruction of obsolete records.
We craft timely, cost-efficient solutions for clients and assist them in conducting risk analyses. Our goal is to provide to all our records and information management clients high quality, total solution services with an entrepreneurial spirit.
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP
Led by internationally-known privacy experts, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership assists companies in developing global privacy strategies for the digital age. The Centre facilitates discussion of various policy topics and advises chief privacy officers and other senior executives on the development of global corporate information management programs that achieve corporate policy and business goals.
Martin E. Abrams*
Senior Policy Advisor and Executive Director
Washington
(215) 955-1627
mabrams@hunton.com
Fred H. Cate
Senior Policy Advisor
Washington
(202) 419-2019
fcate@hunton.com
*Mr. Abrams is not a lawyer.
