This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Discipline

Jun. 15, 2001

Disposal Dilemma

Attorney-client agreements should describe how documents will be returned or destroyed once a matter is concluded.

        By JoAnne Earls Robbins
        
        With the cost of storage escalating and the desire for efficiency increasing (read "saving money"), there is mounting pressure on law firms to dispose of unnecessary paper. As a result, one of the trickiest questions to come up in efficiently managed offices is, "How long do I have to keep ...

To continue reading, please subscribe.

Already a subscriber?

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)