Tag Archives: Information Governance

How well do you understand your email system? Litigation is not the time to find out.

By Barclay | Published: December 12, 2011

“Had [outside counsel] fulfilled his obligation to familiarize himself with GFI’s policies earlier, the forensic searches and subsequent motions would have been unnecessary.” In re A & M Fla. Props.[i] 1.1     What happened? Two companies agreed to a $41 million real estate transaction. However, before the transaction closed, the sellers refinanced the properties in such [...]

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Email Management and Information Governance: Should we Just Get Rid of it All?

By Barclay | Published: December 5, 2011

“It raises a question of whether there were other relevant emails in existence at that time but which were also not produced, and there is no satisfactory answer because all emails not archived by the email users had since been automatically deleted from the server.” Connor v. Sun Trust Bank[i] What happened? An employee of [...]

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A New Blog Series on Email Management and Information Governance

By Barclay | Published: November 16, 2011

Introduction Email has been a part of our business lives for a long time – at least thirty years. While the basic functionality of email hasn’t changed much since the early 1970s, the way we use it has. From the first tentative, “terse and imperfect” messages sent by Internet pioneers like J.C.R. Licklider[i], to email [...]

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Information Governance Speaking Engagements

By Barclay | Published: October 5, 2011

If you are in the New York City Metro area, you have two opportunities to be terribly bored   incredibly amazed by my very presence come and hear me speak, and also meet some great people. Building the Three-Year Information Governance Plan ARMA Metro NYC Chapter, October 13, 2011, 5:30 pm “You’ve got IG problems. You’ve [...]

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HP, Autonomy, and the Fears of Information Governance Hipsters

By Barclay | Published: September 22, 2011

HP is back on the front pages again with a high-profile changing of the CEO (already?) The mainstream business press seems to really like covering HP. Perhaps this because HP is widely perceived as a consumer products company, although its personal computer division produced only about a third of its overall revenue in the last quarter, and the company [...]

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