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Spreading Like Wildfire: Emerging Data Sources Continue to Spark Governance, Compliance, Discovery Challenges
Concerns over emerging data sources have reached an all-time high.
After several years of steadily burning in the background of legal department challenges, the flames have caught on and grown, forcing in-house counsel and their law firms into fire-fighting mode across e-discovery, compliance monitoring, investigations, regulatory response and more. Over the last year, 62% of global general counsel confirmed they had experienced distinct new issues associated with collaboration tools, chat applications, file shares and other similar cloud-based systems, and nearly all (93%) expressed some level of concern about emerging data sources as a significant area of risk.
“Case law summaries of rulings over the past year have shown that emerging data sources issues, including discovery failures across mobile devices and messaging platforms, and issues with establishing ESI protocols, persist as major issues in e-discovery. Our teams have seen this firsthand in our work with clients. On this front, no issue is of more immediate concern to legal teams than linked content. The tension between what can be done vs. what should be done are creating increasing complexity. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers. Understanding upfront what is and isn’t possible is key as courts are quickly losing patience with counsel’s confusion around modern data capabilities.”