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Byline: Bobby Pickering
Who's providing leadership?
Developing enterprise-wide information management policies is a hot button issue for information professionals.
One organisation making the running in promoting the need for high-level corporate-wide strategies is "Magic Circle" law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. With 515 partners and principal consultants (and more than 2,460 lawyers) in 28 offices worldwide, Freshfields has been at the forefront of negotiating and managing vast amounts of sensitive documentation.
As the firm's name suggests, there have been mergers along the way, necessarily involving the unification of disparate information systems and records management policies. Clearly a lot has been learnt. Freshfields is currently positioning itself to give advice on information management -- the bedrock on which good governance and enterprise stability is built.
All the demands placed on organisations by external regulatory authorities require simple, effective and ...