Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, under indictment on charges of corruption, and his team, were handed more than a million pages and hours of audio recordings containing evidentiary material the government has collected in building its case against him. If you had 10 people reading through the materials at a speed of 1 page every 2 minutes, that would mean each person would have to read 100,000 pages which at a rate of 30 pages per hour, would take each person approximately 138 days or nearly 4 months to accomplish, assuming they worked round the clock. Could ECM technology help in this situation?
If you were to take and scan all of the documents using recognition technology to index them and then were able to search using semantic analytics, it might be possible to catalog and comb through this information in a more timely manner. The ability to capture, index, store and search through mountains of content is exactly what ECM technology could do to help the cause and expedite the process to prepare.
Is this what they are doing? I cannot answer this question but I do know and hear from many in the Legal field that this has rapidly been recognized and accepted as a way to address litigation support and preparation. The key is to know the capabilities and limitations. The human factor will not disappear as a result of the technology but it will enhance and support the efforts required to develop a defensive position.
What say you? Have you had been involved in a situation where ECM technologies were put to use as a tool for litigation support? I’d like to hear from you.
Bob Larrivee – AIIM
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