The study describes and discusses the criteria for transfer of administrative documents and legal processes to agency records centers in three law offices in Belo Horizonte, from the viewpoint of document management. The results showed that space problems were prevalent in deciding the transfer the documentation to spaces outside the office premises.The following alternatives were adopted: archival storage of legal processes outside the downtown area and owned by the office; archival storage of legal processes, such as a deposit, in a room located in the downtown area and owned by the office; outsourced warehouse for the storage of Human Resources and Accounting / Finance documents. It was observed that the decision for adoption of spaces for an agency records center, where the rent per square meter is cheaper, did not have the life cycle of documents as a reference. In this sense, the benefits brought by the adoption of systematic evaluation was overlooked. It is observed that the three law firms are facing a growing production of documents without planning / management / evaluation, and that documentation tends to reach a high volume.
Agency records centre; Document management
