The Era of Mega-Case Litigation

The era of mega-case litigation has arrived. In the last 2 years, mega-cases ' those with more than 500,000 pages for review ' have become commonplace according to leading law firms and litigation support vendors. Indeed, in high profile cases today, document collections can easily run over 50 million pages ' roughly a terabyte of data, or the equivalent of about 20,000 Banker boxes. The rapid growth of electronic documents presents significant challenges for corporations and law firms involved in litigation. Dealing with the challenges of document reviews across multiple, related cases is also becoming increasingly important for many corporations.

19 minute read March 30, 2004 at 09:14 AM
By
Chris Kruse
The Era of Mega-Case Litigation

The growth of electronic documents is astounding. According to an estimate by The Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association in “Titanic 2020 ' A Call to Action”, the total number of electronic records in the world could double every minute in the next 10 years (Lysakowski & Leibowitz, 2000, pg. 6).

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