With compliance discovery typically averaging out at a million US dollars per legal case, the whole area of retrieving all digital dialog around a dispute is the time and money sink that stresses IT staff and slows line of business technology adoption.
Legal compliance touches all parts of business, from the dullest process work to the most exciting research and development, and from the smallest project to trawling through terrabytes of email archives and electronically stored information (ESI) for all relevant correspondence.
The legal restrictions that large company legal departments design to comply with international information retention legislation - typically blanket global standards - are what IT departments are tasked to enforce.
The email archiving, retrieval and packaging for corporate lawyers industry is huge - the legal profession is a bastion of the document and email culture. This is the way the legal profession has worked for hundreds of years from back office to day in court.
It would be fair to say that business communication is shaped - and hindered - by the way the legal profession works.
Along come sophisticated ways of working - collaboration networks that resemble sophisticated ‘performance fabrics’ of interoperability - but the boat anchor of legal workflow practice is always lurking in the background.
This arcane legal world tends to make peoples eyes gloss over, and few outside the profession feel they can do anything but follow processes laid out by legal departments they often have little or no contact with.
In fact, many lawyers would like nothing more than to work with the rest of the business to streamline document retention tactics.
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Source: blogs.zdnet.com
By: Oliver Marks
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