Don Philmlee

A big problem facing many firms today is the rapid emergence of electronic data discovery. Many of the corporate litigation cases today reach into the law firms that are serving corporations. They cause law firms to have to identify and retain enormous amounts of information in an environment where the information infrastructure may be ill suited to do so.

Enterprise search engines can now reach deep into law firm data stores and easily pull data out. As these engines become part of the foundation of the infrastructure, firm’s will be able to meet the demands of electronic discovery. Such technology can conceivably give a firm a big advantage when searching for and archiving data for electronic or work product discovery.