The challenge of processing digital information has caused lawyers to lose a case or to be fined or sanctioned in the last two years.

A survey of 5,000 lawyers across EMEA by Symantec found that they are struggling to manage the vast amounts of electronically stored information that play a vital role as evidence in legal matters across the EMEA region.

Half of those surveyed (51 per cent) admitted to problems identifying and recovering e-discovery in the last three months. However the poor availability of ‘digital evidence’, which can also hinder the legal process and the power of technology to identify and collect relevant information among millions of electronic files has had a positive impact on many cases across EMEA.

Almost all of the lawyers questioned (98 per cent) said that ‘digital evidence’ identified during e-discovery had been vital to the success of legal matters in which they had been involved in the past two years.

via Difficulties producing ‘digital evidence’ cause lawyers to lose cases – SC Magazine UK.