Infoglut – such a challenge. Lawyers, especially because they are archetypal knowledge workers, find themselves inundated daily by an overwhelming barrage of information – all competing for their scarce and precious attention.
A single edition of a daily newspaper in any major global city carries more factual information than was gathered in all the written information available to a reader in the 15th century – and many lawyers scan two or more papers a day. A recent study by the IDC stated that eight billion e-mails traverse the internet daily and business people spend an average of four hours per day processing e-mail.
