Legal agreements impact all aspects of an organization: employees, suppliers, resellers, customers, intercompany relations (often with many complex fiscal consequences), and shareholders, to name just a few
Yeah, yeah, the show was sold to Questex a long time ago, legal agreements, blah blah blah… who cares?
Every time you buy something from eBay, download a song from iTunes, or install a program on your computer, you are entering into a legal agreement without physically signing anything
Departments and their relevant archives could include, for example, Sales (contracts, customer contact files, quotes), Management (board minutes and notes, legal agreements, quality control), Finance (accounts payable, accounting, correspondence files with various external contact), and on down the departmental lists