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Access Unify® | Lifecycle: The Global Standard in Legal Research for Records Management

With regulatory landscapes evolving rapidly and compliance being non-negotiable, Access Unify | Lifecycle stands as the premier legal research platform dedicated to records management requirements across 250+ global jurisdictions.

What Sets Access Unify | Lifecycle Apart

Always Current, Always Compliant

Access Unify | Lifecycle is a living regulatory repository—continuously monitoring and integrating new legislation and amendments, while undergoing annual verification to ensure your organization remains aligned with the most current and reliable legal requirements across every jurisdiction we cover.

A Disciplined and Systematic Research Methodology

Access Unify | Lifecycle’s research framework targets three authoritative sources:

  • Official legislative databases at the national and subnational levels
  • Regulatory bodies and their published directives
  • Guidance from globally recognized industry standardizing organizations

This tri-source strategy ensures comprehensive and reliable legal intelligence.

Expertise You Can Trust

Our in-house team of professional legal researchers and paralegals, empowered by technology, deliver precise, jurisdiction-specific regulatory knowledge, guaranteeing the accuracy of each requirement.

Unlimited Citation Support

Access Unify | Lifecycle subscribers benefit from unlimited citation investigations. Whether clarifying a complex statute or validating a regulatory reference, our team is ready to assist.

Deep Context Through Structured Data

Access Unify | Lifecycle features 20 meticulously curated data points, each requirement answering five foundational questions:

  • Where does the requirement originate?
  • What does it mandate?
  • Why does it carry legal authority?
  • When is it in effect?
  • Who is obligated to comply?

Multilingual Access to Legal Texts

Access Unify | Lifecycle enhances accessibility by providing full legal texts in both English and the original source languages, bridging linguistic gaps and enabling confident decision-making.

Partner with the Experts

Meet the experienced team behind Access Unify | Lifecycle’s trusted retention guidance—your partners in legal compliance, audit readiness, and schedule modernization.

Brent Martindale

Attorney, Senior Director of Professional Services and Legal Research

Omero Banuelos

Attorney, Senior Counsel Leader for Citation Mapping and Recommendations Legal Team

Samantha Poindexter

Attorney, Managed Services Team Leader and Counsel

Adam Koonce

Paralegal, Legal Citation Research Team Manager

 

Andrea Lipari

Paralegal and Certified Records Manager, Retention Schedule Build and Modernization Team Lead

 

Michelle Dunbar

Senior Project Manager

 

The Key to Regulatory Compliance Success

We will help you create a centralized document management program that ensures compliance with internal information governance policies, as well as regulations such as:

  • HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
  • FACTA (The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act)
  • FERPA (The Family Educational Rights Privacy Act)
  • GDPR (The General Data Protection Regulation) & CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)
  • SOX (The Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
  • GLBA (The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act)

Why does this matter?

If you fail to comply, you increase:

  • Risk of fraud, theft or abuse of customer or company information
  • Exposure to significant fines, penalties and legal liabilities
  • Harm to your reputation, trust and customer loyalty

The regulatory environment continues to evolve quickly as privacy concerns get amplified by our increasingly digital world.

This directly impacts your retention and document storage policies and practices.

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