The Industry Leader in Records Retention Schedule Consulting and Development

Information Requirements Clearinghouse provides best-of-breed Records Retention Schedule development and maintenance consulting services. These services include creating a legally defensible enterprise-wide Retention Schedule, performing accurate custom legal research for specific industries and jurisdictions, or updating a records retention schedule with changes in recordkeeping laws and regulations. Information Requirements completes more records retention schedules each year than any other comparable consulting firm. All retention schedules are supported by up-to-the-minute and accurate legal research.

Information Requirements records retention consulting services are performed by Donald Skupsky and the Information Requirements team. Letting us help with your records retention policy project will give you the benefits of over 25 years of legal research, problem solving, and world-renowned thought leadership in records retention. We have successfully completed more defensible Records Retention Schedules than any other records retention consulting firm.

Information Requirements also provides consulting services related to the legality of optical disk and other types of record media. We receive numerous requests for information and analysis from legal counsel, potential users and vendors world-wide related to legal compliance of records and information management programs with state and federal law. Information Requirements also provides consulting services in other areas of records management on request.

Contact us for an assessment of your current retention schedule status, and discover why we are considered to be the number one resource in the field.

Upcoming Seminars

Donald Skupsky conducts educational seminars throughout the United States and in Canada.  Topics include “Legal Requirements for Records and Information Management Programs,” “Legal Requirements for Microfilm, Computer and Optical Disk Records” and “Legal and Operational Requirements for Records Retention Programs.”

The next seminar will be held on April 12 at the Union Club in Chicago. Donald Skupsky will be joined by records experts from Duff and Phelps to discuss best practices in establishing and implementing a Records Retention Policy. Please contact us for more information on this special event.

The Benefits of Using Information Requirements Clearinghouse

Information Requirements Clearinghouse offers the following benefits to your project:

1. Extensive experience in preparing records retention programs and researching legal requirements for records.

2. We have already completed records retention projects for several Fortune 500 companies and other small and large organizations in numerous fields.

3. We utilize proprietary, state-of-the-art computer software to develop the retention program quickly and accurately.

4. We maintain and regularly updates our own proprieatry database of laws related to records retention requirements. We have been doing this since 1984. We can, therefore, devote more attention to the special industries and activities in which you organization operates, rather than the simpler, common laws such as tax, employment, contracts, etc.

5. We develop retention schedules based upon "The Skupsky Retention Method",  developed by its president, Donald S. Skupsky. This method has been "road-tested" for over 15 years in actual retention programs in numerous large global companies. Mr. Skupsky is considered the foremost national authority on records retention schedule development.

6. We prepare retention schedules that contain appropriate legal research, do not require revision when the organization reorganizes, contain consistent and accurate retention periods, rarely have to be changed even when laws change, and are updated quickly.

7. You can effectively and easily maintain our retention schedules after the development project ends. Of courese, we are always available to advise after the project completion. By utilizing the Retention Manager software to update your records retention program and legal research, you can be independent for future schedule maintenance.

8. We can provide you with the project's records retention final files in computer-readable form to enable you to use the information as part of an existing electronic records or content management system.