I daresay that 20 years as a litigator gives Chuck a vast wealth of insight on the do's and don't of records and information management.
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John
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On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Charles Kennedy wrote:
> First, my introduction. I've been a lurker on the site for a good while
> now. I came to Records Management as a discipline fairly late in my
> professional life, and have appreciated the insights of the site's contributors as
> well as the patience and teaching of more experienced Records Managers in
> my own organization, ARMA and elsewhere as I play catch up and try to
> understand it all.
>
> In response to Gary's question, I'm a lawyer by training, and practiced as
> a litigator in my firm for over 20 years before becoming director of our
> records and docketing activities in multiple offices. I've long thought of
> the management of a client's matter file as simply one component of the
> legal services we provide, for which the lawyer is ultimately responsible.
> Most ethics codes I've seen reflect something like this view. I think of my
> role now as being a kind of bridge builder, helping to improve
> communication and understanding between our lawyers, our records staff and our
> technology folks. In this context, the JD and even more the experience I had in
> practice have been helpful, as have my experiences in collecting records from
> clients and their systems for discovery, and in using and understanding
> our own computer systems from a user's (and abuser's) perspective. While
> that's been my path, I know there are a number of records professionals
> working very successfully and effectively in law firm or other legal environments
> without a law degree -- just as there are many very good lawyers who
> probably would not make particularly effective records professionals. Viva
> variety! Personally, I don't use either the J.D. or Esq. suffixes in
> referring to myself, although I guess I might use the J.D. and my class year if
> writing to my law school or an alumni group, or in some other context in which
> my academic pedigree was relevant. Some other lawyers will use Esq. when
> addressing formal correspondence to me, though I'm just as happy with
> "Chuck".
>
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> On Jul 8, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Link, Gary M. wrote:
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>> I have seen several records managers who have a "JD" after their name in
>> their title. I am curious about this: did you get your law degree first,
>> and then focus on RM? Or visa versa? Is JD the designation one uses when
>> one has a law degree but is not a practicing attorney at a law firm (who
>> use "Esq."), but rather works in another profession? Or are the two
>> simply interchangeable? What career paths would open up for a records
>> manager who went on to earn a law degree but planned to still work in
>> RM?
>>
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>>
>> Thanks for clearing this up for me.
>>
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