Information governance encompasses more than traditional records management. It includes the management of business records through defensible policies and protocols, but also all of the systems and processes required for an organization's information to meet its legal, regulatory, privacy, data security and business requirements.

Wortzman Nickle provides legal and technical advice to organizations regarding information governance. We bring legal, practical, and technical perspectives to provide our clients with customized, legally defensible approaches to information governance, ensuring compatibility with existing IT infrastructure requirements and business culture.

 

Wortzman Nickle provides advice and assistance regarding:

• Overall information governance strategy
  
  
• The impact of new and emerging technologies on information governance
  
  
• Ongoing protection of personal, privileged and confidential information through information governance and discovery processes
  
  
• The evaluation and implementation of an Enterprise Content Management ("ECM") and Records Retention ("RR") system that meets the requirements of the policies;
  
  
• Auditing all policies, procedures and the implementation of ECM and RR systems to ensure they are working effectively. The nature of the audit procedure is particularly critical as the information received from the audit that ensures the policies are ultimately defensible.