Larry wrote:
>I recall past practice used to involve a direct mailing followed up by a
>posting a notice in a newspaper of the last known city of the client for 7
>days giving notice that if the records remained unclaimed by their last
>known owner or a successor organization that could lay claim to them, they
>would be destroyed.
>Do any law firms or commercial storage service providers still follow this
>practice?
We discussed this tactic and decided corporate research to identify the correct address was an investment more likely to lead to contact.
The standard we were using required a reasonable effort. It did not require an exhaustive effort. We believe the effort we made was more than reasonable.
Doug Smith, ECMp
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