Nearly everyone who has been involved in a disclosure process involving rooms and rooms of documents will understand how difficult it is to manage large volumes of data. They will also be well aware that the larger the number of documents, the higher the chance of a handling error. Mishandling one document could mean losing the ‘smoking gun’ document that is crucial to a case.
In 2002, paper documents made up less than 10% of all new documents generated globally, while there were more than one trillion e-mails sent that year. Now consider the risk of missing one document when those rooms of paper documents make up only a fraction of the documents to be managed.
