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Originally Posted by CohibaBehike
Without going into too much specifics what are your file close out procedures/requirements?
Notwithstanding financial records, which are obviously different, what exactly are you holding onto?
In my father's small firm we do not keep anything that we are not required to under statute. My father's mantra being that he is not the repository for his client's information. All documents are returned to clients and they only documents he retains, which he must under statute, are documents relating to his financial transactions with clients.
Only what we have to under statute. Our malpractice carrier recommends keeping copies of all correspondence as well, so we keep that.
I guess my question is more like, do I need to send a letter ending representation to the estate executor? Obviously, we aren't doing the CL's probate, but just want to be sure there is no confusion since CL probably has our paperwork lying around the apartment since the matter just recently closed.
edit: We have copies of all outgoing/incoming. I just scan everything, so we technically have a "copy" of everything, but it is digital. We keep hard copies of everything for the most part as well, but especially financial related docs.