E-discovery professionals have always known their jobs entails a race against data. And they’ve often heard—and repeated—an aphorism lest they forget: Remember, data volumes are growing at breakneck speeds. But almost a year into a remote workforce transition, they need no more reminding.

“The amount of digital data, we’ve always heard it’s increasing exponentially. I think this has just compounded that problem,” said Toby Stinson, manager, law data and applications at Chevron.