The suggestion that emails are in decline has been commonly touted for quite some years now. As litigators spend a significant proportion of their time collating, searching, organising and interpreting emails by the thousands and millions this topic is surely one of interest.
Having read a multitude of “Email Is Dead” articles in the past, we thought that we would have a look at the subject and see how it relates to eDiscovery, and the people that rely on those services.
A simple web search lets me know that 124.5 billion ‘business’ emails are sent every day. For a dying entity that is quite lively. Over the last five years email use has grown 5% year on year so this vast usage is clearly going to remain a key plank in most people’s communication activity.
So why do people insist on greatly exaggerating emails death?
As a case in point, over the last year at Altlaw we have undertaken some major structural changes. These changes were accomplished on a project-by-project basis and we found that our communication habits changed quite drastically and very quickly.