<< The only reason I can think of for categorizing retention period laws into made-up categories of laws like 'IP laws' etc. is to enable efficient routing of legal questions to appropriate specialist attorneys.>>

If I understand you correctly, I disagree.  Grouping legal citations into categories is the only way I know of to logically associate dozens or hundreds of individual citations to a single record series.   

<<. If it is a retention period bucket then grouping all potentially applicable (or potentially applicable)  laws into categories by retention period/length of time doesn't accomplish anything. For example, it doesn't matter that a labor law, that applies to certain HR records at your company, coincidentally has the same retention period as a customer notice letter you also create at your company.>>

The same is true here, we have several Operations related legal groups that consist of nothing more than a collection of requirements with a common retention requirement/consideration.  Creating individual legal groups for hundreds of individual requirements would significantly increase the complexity of the schedule. 

Bill Roach, CRM

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