National Law Journal, September 2005, found:

• Companies spent $4.6 billion in 2005 to analyze e-mails
• 50% of evidence is email
• Microsoft receives 25-30 million emails a day
• U.S. firms spent $1.2 billion on outside e-discovery services
  • Projected to grow to to $1.9 billion in 2006
• Only 62% of companies doubt they can prove their e-records are reliable
• 10% of corporate cases settled to avoid costs of e-discovery
• Frank Quattrone received 18 month sentence for sending an email advising employees to "clean up" their files during a criminal inquiry of the bank.

In February 2005:

• 80% of Corporate Counsel members of the ABA were unfamiliar with the December 2006 proposed e-discovery changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure