Biographical Information
Julia Brickell
Executive Managing Director and
General Counsel, H5
Julia Brickell is executive managing director and general counsel of H5. She has broad experience addressing strategic challenges that companies face in managing electronic information. She is on the board of Lawyers for Civil Justice and on the faculty of Columbia University’s Executive Master of Science in Technology Management.
Articles by Julia Brickell
Legacy Data Cleanup A 5-Step Plan
18 Sep 2009
All companies have it. Backup tapes out of rotation, information retained from a resolved lawsuit, data left on servers after a migration, orphaned computers and media left behind when employees leave or move. Such electronic "legacy" information can be easy to ignore (or not know about), but its very existence represents an avoidable cost and unnecessary legal, regulatory and privacy risk. As mergers combine company information and layoffs separate electronic information from prior owners, legacy information is growing. And often there is no good reason for this information to persist...