Article by Brian Larsen posted on Law.com, November 8, 2007:
As most e-discovery vendors will happily tell you, 99 percent of all new business information is being created and stored electronically, and an estimated 60 billion e-mail messages are sent daily in the U.S. Sifting through all this data in a meaningful manner requires strategic thinking. On one hand, parties have an obligation — and courts have created incentives — to be fully forthcoming on electronic discovery requests. On the other hand, processing and reviewing data collected from hundreds of desktops and servers can become very expensive….