Practical IG Guidance

Lifecycle IG helps law firms and corporate legal departments bring order to records, documents, and data through practical advice and hands-on implementation shaped around how legal teams actually work.

Bring structure to records and information.

Records and Governance

Reduce ROT data and exposure.

Data Cleanup

Strengthen access, security, and oversight.

Security and Detection

Governance Consulting

Information governance

Turn information policy into everyday practice.

Discuss your governance priorities

Assess the current state
Review records practices, responsibilities, and the way information moves through your organization.
Build a practical roadmap
Define priorities for retention, disposition, ownership, and governance processes.
Put the plan to work
Translate recommendations into procedures, technology requirements, and an implementation plan.

ROT data discovery & cleanup

Keep what matters. Reduce what does not.

Plan your data cleanup

Understand your data
Identify redundant, obsolete, and trivial information across the environments in scope.
Make informed decisions
Define review criteria and disposition workflows that account for retention obligations and legal holds.
Implement the right tools
Configure discovery and cleanup solutions, with a repeatable process for ongoing governance.

Closed security models

Give people access to the information they need.

Discuss your security model

Design access policies
Translate business roles, client requirements, and matter needs into a practical access model.
Implement iManage Security Policy Manager
Configure policies and controls to support a move to a closed, need-to-know environment.
Support the transition
Plan testing, exceptions, communications, and administration for day-to-day use.

Threat detection

Bring greater visibility to unusual document activity.

Discuss threat detection

Implement iManage Threat Manager
Plan and configure the solution around your document environment and security priorities.
Tune monitoring and alerts
Work with your team to establish useful detection settings and review workflows.
Prepare for operational use
Support validation, administrator handover, and a clear process for reviewing alerts.

iManage document management

Make document management work for your legal teams.

Plan an iManage implementation

Plan the implementation
Define requirements, workspace structures, metadata, and document-management processes.
Configure and migrate
Implement iManage and plan the migration of documents and supporting information.
Support adoption
Coordinate testing, rollout, and training so teams can work confidently in the new environment.

Records management technology

Connect your records strategy to the right system.

Discuss records technology

Clarify product requirements
Align records management needs with the capabilities of the products under consideration.
Implement and integrate
Configure the selected platform, plan data migration, and address required integrations.
Build a sustainable process
Support testing, administrative handover, and workflows for managing records throughout their lifecycle.

Data Cleanup

Identify and remediate redundant, obsolete, and trivial data across legal environments.

Security & Threats

Strengthen document access with security policies, threat detection, and iManage implementations.

Records Management

Implement records management practices that support retention, defensibility, and daily legal work.