TODAY’S LEGAL PROFESSIONALS ARE BEING BURIED BENEATH AN AVALANCHE OF DATA
Total incoming cases in U.S. state courts amounted to 84.2 million in 2016 alone. Each of these cases generates massive amounts of information. Consider that U.S. businesses, including the legal profession, use about 21 million tons of paper every year.
Sometimes a single lawsuit can produce mind-boggling quantities of data. The larger cases can encompass 100 terabytes of data, equivalent to 8.5 billion pages, or about 8.5 million trees, if those pages were printed out.
In many cases, it’s no longer practical from a time or cost perspective for a lawyer—or even an entire legal team—to sift through all the available information. Increasingly, the only way to navigate this sea of data is to utilize artificial intelligence engines that can ingest all kinds of content, from printed text to recorded phone calls.
By leveraging AI, legal groups can implement a proactive approach to communications compliance monitoring, constantly and thoroughly reviewing material in real-time with a level of efficiency that would be impossible using traditional manual techniques.