Law Firm Records Management Benchmarks

The study presents data from 10 major law firms about their records management practices. Among the issues covered: records retention policies, staff size, office space used, offsite storage space used, costs of offsite storage space, use of legal records management consultancies, departmental budgets, uses of staff time, ratio of management to support personnel, ratio of records staff to total number of attorneys, policies on social media and cyberspace records, composition of original records base between electronic and paper-based records, and much more.