Enterprise Strategy Group research estimates that 46% of organizations went through an electronic discovery event in the past 12 months. 77% of those discoveries required organizations to produce e-mail. Amongst all the ImClone, Enron, and [enter your high profile corporate scandal here], we must realize that 1 out of every 2 corporations have to sift through IT systems, messaging applications and back up tapes in response to a regulatory or legal discovery request.

Is it not enough that IT has to manage all the applications and supporting systems that create the data? Now IT must lend in-house attorneys a helping hand when dealing with the latest lawsuit.