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Senior Consultant & Licensed Attorney · Co-Manager, Consulting
Rick Surber, JD, IGP, CRM
Rick Surber is a senior consultant and licensed attorney at Zasio and co-manager of Consulting. He also manages Zasio’s Legal Research division. Rick has helped clients ease records and RIM/IG pain points for over 15 years, focusing on program enhancement/development. This includes policy work, like RRS development, simplification, maintenance, and compliance. It also includes strategizing about RIM’s role in IG, and how to build cohesion between other IG stakeholders like legal, privacy, IT, and risk/compliance. Rick is a CRM, IGP, and is also licensed to practice law in Idaho.
Articles by Rick
- From the CRM: It’s Time to Take Your Career to the Next LevelInside NIRMA Magazine – Summer 2021, pages 18–19
- Defensible Disposition Framework: 6 Steps to Record Deletion
- Build a Customized Records Retention Schedule That Works
- How Long to Keep Employee Records – Seems Like an Easy Question, Right?
- Meet Our Team! Rick Surber, Licensed Attorney / Senior Consultant
- US Privacy Laws & RIM — Recent Developments
- EU’s New Whistleblower Directive & Impacts on RIM
- Save Money, Increase Efficiency, and Reduce Risk with RIM
- Records Management Disaster Plan Development
- Records Handling Laws: Format Requirements
- The Implications of Information Management Regulation
- Redundant, Obsolete, or Trivial Information: Introduction & Prevention Tips
- EU-US Privacy Shield Introduction and Current Status
- What Does a Permanent Retention Period Really Mean?
- Anonymization and Compelled Destruction Requirements for Companies
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