ACC Sees Need for Better Information Governance

The Association of Corporate Counsel on Tuesday announced the launch of an Information Governance committee to help educate in-house lawyers about data management, marking the first new committee for the legal group in nearly five years.

The IG committee will be led by lawyers from Lockheed Martin, Occidental Petroleum, Physicians Insurance, Symantec and other companies and is planning a series of educational programs around data management.

Many corporate law departments manage data on a piecemeal basis, if at all, according to committee chair L. Shawn Cheadle, general counsel, military space at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. The problem is that eDiscovery, cybersecurity, ...