Electronically stored information (ESI) is replacing mountains of paper in today’s business world. But for some lawyers, therein lies a new terror – how to tackle the review and production of electronic documents. Is this really a massive leap from traditional comfort zones? And can technology simultaneously make the process more efficient and less expensive?
In business, ESI exists in a bewildering array of formats and locations: laptops, emails, BlackBerrys, intranets, accounting systems, instant messages and everything in between. The prevalence of technology within the workplace has caused an explosion in data volumes. Sifting through it to review potentially relevant documents can leave lawyers feeling as though they are in pursuit of a needle in the proverbial haystack.
