DESCRIPTION
The PLL/SIS Records/Conflicts Management Group is comprised of librarians who
are responsible for managing records and/or conflicts departments in
their firms and corporations.
HISTORY
The Records Management Group began meeting informally at the AALL meeting in Minneapolis in 1990. The group continued to meet for the next two years as required to achieve formal status. At the AALL meeting in Boston in 1993, the group was formally recognized. The group formerly changed its name to Records/Conflicts Management in 2004.
OFFICERS
Lee Nemchek currently serves as Chair.
COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
MEETINGS: The group holds a business meeting each year at the AALL meeting, and has sponsored seven substantive programs at AALL over the past eleven years, including the following: a daylong workshop on basic legal records management practices and procedures (1998); sessions on multitasking private law library managers (2000 and 2003); a program on corporate family conflicts of interest research (2004); a program on outsourcing information resources functions (2005); a recent program on electronic discovery (2007); and this year’s workshop on the management of conflicts and docket departments in law firms (2008).
NEWSLETTER COLUMN: The Chair contributes regular columns to the
Section's quarterly newsletter, PLL Perspectives.
LISTSERV: The Records Management Group of PLL has an official listserv, legalrec, which serves both PLL members and legal records managers in the community at large. Lee Nemchek is the current list owner. To subscribe, log on to the internet url: http://share.aallnet.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=pll-legalrec-sis. Follow the instructions on the page, and click "subscribe." You will receive two confirming emails: one to confirm your intent to subscribe, and a second to confirm that your subscription has been successfully entered. Once subscribed, address postings to pll-legalrec-sis@aallnet.org. Subscription to this listserv is restricted to practicing legal records and/or conflicts managers only; the list does not permit vendor subscribers at this time.
REPORTS
2001-02 Annual Report
2002-03 Annual Report
2003-04 Annual Report
2004-05 Annual Report
2005-06 Annual Report
RECENT/CURRENT PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS:
(1) AALL 2008 Half-Day Workshop Program in Portland: "So Now You're Conflicts" / "So Now You're Docket" : The Evolving Law Firm Library Manager, scheduled for Saturday afternoon, 7/12/08.
(2) ARMA 2008 Poster Session Program in Las Vegas: Strategic Planning for RIM Start-Ups, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, 10/21/2008.
(3) The textbook entitled "Records Management in the Legal
Environment: A Handbook of Practice and Procedure," co-authored by Lee Nemchek and published by ARMA International in October 2003, won the
prestigious Christine Zanotti Award for Excellence in Non-Serial
Publications. This award, given to recognize certain exceptional
contributions in the field of literature for the records and information
management profession, was presented at the ARMA annual conference in
Long Beach, California in October 2004. Over four years in the making,
this treatise is the only up-to-date, comprehensive work on this
subject. Cost is $89.00 for ARMA members, $129.00 for non-members.
Order online at
http://www.arma.org/bookstore/product_detail.cfm?itemID=1389.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
CONTACT:
Lee R. Nemchek MLS, CRM (Chair)
VP, Records Management
Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.
333 S. Grand Avenue, 28th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Direct Dial: (213) 830-6252
Direct Fax: (213) 830-8504
Email: lnemchek@oaktreecapital.com
