Hi Irene,

Generally speaking, chron files should be duplicates of documents elsewhere in the client file, and so can have a short retention period (some firms destroy them at close of the matter, rather than sending them to storage).  BE CAREFUL to make sure there aren't unique docs in there though ...

As for timesheets, so long as the data is retained in your time and billing system to corroborate invoices, there is no reason to keep the marked up versions in the file.  I often recommend no more than 6 months.  Regardless, they should be purged before sending the file to storage.

As always, you should verify this for your jurisdictions.

Hope it helps 

Julie

Julie J. Colgan, CRM
Columbia, SC 

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On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Irene Eklund <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
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> I work for a law firm in the Boston, MA area and I am researching to find out if there are any file retention rules for retaining attorney chron and timesheet files.   Over the years it has just been common practice to keep the attorney's chron files and timesheets and send them to off site storage periodically.    We are now trying to reduce the volume of our storage inventory and are looking to see if there are any retention rule in regards to these types of documents.
> 
> If anyone knows if there are any retention guidelines for attorney chron and timesheets, it would be most appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> Irene Eklund
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