Lone Pine Order Compliance Support
In the Zostavax MDL the court dismissed 1,189 cases for failure to comply with a Lone Pine order. Compliance is a document production exercise with case-dismissal stakes, and it is almost always staffed as an afterthought. A Lone Pine order is, in Faegre Drinker’s description, a case management order that requires all plaintiffs to produce […]
Government Contract Record Retention Rules
FAR 4.703 lets you image your records and throw the paper away. It also says you must keep the originals for a minimum of one year after imaging, and that your indexing has to allow timely access. Most contractors do the first part. Record retention is the least interesting obligation a government contractor has and […]
Government Document Digitization at Scale
800,000 pages, one month ahead of schedule, 28 percent under budget. That sentence is the whole pitch, and it is why this page leads with it instead of a scanner specification. Government document digitization is bought on two things: whether the indexing will be right, and whether the schedule will hold. Image quality is table […]