We work carefully to understand clients’ information governance profiles and tailor solutions that fit their specific needs, risk tolerances, and regulatory and industry footprints. Clients trust us to help them navigate changing information governance paradigms, reducing risk and cost and positioning them for success.
The risks associated with outdated or faulty strategic information governance are growing as clients face record-keeping compliance penalties, e-discovery costs and sanctions, and expenses and reputational harm associated with frequent data privacy and security incidents. Success depends on the intelligent use and protection of information, but the governance of that information warrants a dramatic and unprecedented change in practice.
To assist clients in managing the maze of potential information governance hazards, our nationwide team includes certified records managers, certified privacy professionals, security professionals and international litigators. We have established relationships with an extensive network of foreign law firms and experts, ensuring the timely delivery of reliable and accurate foreign legal advice when necessary. We also partner with and direct third-party service providers when appropriate.
Our spectrum of services includes:
- Strategic advice: We provide organizational-level advice, enterprise-wide consistency, compliance with regulatory and legal requirements, and informed prospective guidance for year-on-year success – even when confronting drastic technological and client compositional changes. Advice requires understanding, and our combined interview and investigative approach begins by showing clients where they stand before solutions are provided.
- Information management – technology and solutions: Our professionals work closely with clients and BakerHostetler’s information technology and transactions teams to develop requests for proposals, select appropriate vendors and solutions, and execute safeguards for the use of those solutions.
- Information use – policies and schedules: We advise clients on information governance policies and schedules, the creation and modification of those policies, and the maintenance and overhauling of related schedules. Proper policies and schedules provide clear instructions for handling personal and client information, a standard for audit and improvement initiatives, and a foundation for new internal technologies and processes.