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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Law - E-mail has changed the legal landscape

NPR's Morning Edition had an interesting story this morning titled "E-Mail, the Workplace and the Electronic Paper Trail" by Ari Shapiro. It began:

E-mail and other electronic communications have dramatically changed the contemporary legal landscape. By some estimates, more than 90 percent of the cost of a lawsuit today can come from sorting through e-mails and other electronic documents to determine which ones are relevant to the case.
Listen to it (or read it) here. Another quote:
The need to sort through those piles of documents has had a significant impact on the lives of recent law school graduates.

"Today a young person graduating from law school and joining a large firm in one of our major cities can look forward to perhaps three or four years of doing nothing but sitting in front of a computer screen reviewing e-mail and other electronic documents for litigation," Withers says.

This is part of a series by NPR on The E-Mail Age.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 18, 2008 10:01 AM
Posted to General Law Related