At the beginning of December Legal RM set up the "Legal Records Management Group" on LinkedIn to support the legal community around various aspects of Physical and Electronic Records Management.

Keith Dacey, Director at Legal RM said, "Following the success of the Legal RM Networking Forums which we have been running for almost two years, we felt there was a need for firms to be able to reach out to their peers as and when required, in order to promote best practices within the Legal and wider Professional Services Community" Dacey continued "Our quarterly meetings are sometime not regular enough for firms to  be able to share ideas or ask a peer or  friend in another firm, when they have a problem. The Legal Records Group on LinkedIn now provides this platform for them".

Further to research carried out by Legal RM as part of our on going peer to peer networking forums, in conjunction with the majority of the UK Top 100 law firms, the following article was written in the latest Legal Technology Insider. A full list of findings will be published shortly on our website. Thanks to everyone who participated in this survey!

The 4th Records Management Networking Forum was held on Thursday 5th November at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's London office. This event focussed on cost savings in physical records management and was well attended by law firms across the UK.

To access minutes from this meeting click here.

It was decided that the next event (14th January 2010 at CMS Cameron McKenna's London offices) will again focus on cost savings with a specific benchmarking of off-site storage vendors associated costs & services.

Legal RM hosted the inaugural records management networking event on 25th June.

The informal meeting attracted 35 records managers and archivists from firms as far afield as Watford and Manchester, along with the leading London firms including 10 of the Top 20 UK law firms.

Futher to the 3rd Records Management Networking Event which took place at Charles Russell's offices on 25th November 2008 the notes from this meeting are now available for download

http://www.legal-rm.com/Documents/RecordsForumMinutes25-11-2008.pdf

Legal RM are pleased to announce that the 2nd Legal RM Records Management Networking Forum will be held on Wednesday 10th September 2008.

The event will be taking place in the Client Executive Suite, on the 30th Floor, at Clifford Chance's 10 Upper Bank Street offices in Canary Wharf, London from 4:30pm onwards.

The event will have a more formal seminar style format with topical presentations from leading law firms and industry experts on issues relating to Records Management within professional services and law firms. This will be followed by an opportunity to network with peers over drinks and canapés.