The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), a global legal association representing 40,000 in-house counsel in 90 countries, last week announced the launch of a new practice area committee. The ACC Information Governance Committee will foster engagement and collaboration on corporate legal departments’ role in data protection and collection, discovery procedures and records retention issues.
The committee will serve as a forum for addressing the common data use, protection and storage challenges that affect most corporations. Committee members will address industry best practices on ensuring data privacy, archiving information, becoming “litigation-ready” in the face of complex discovery requests and adding business value by implementing information management systems that lower costs and increase efficiency in the law department.
