Cost of e-discovery related to email

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