Plumbing and storing e-archives: An industry blooms

The USAToday Has An Interesting Report on the “electronic discovery” centers.
Day and night, rows of whirring, blinking computers sock away enormous batches of digital records sent by companies involved in lawsuits. Other files are discovered deep in hard drives; wedged between everything from personal e-mails to pornography by Kroll Ontrack forensic teams whose code names keep their missions secret.

All this once was an arcane backwater of the legal-services field. Electronic discovery was commonly performed by local computer experts who played golf with law firm procurement officers.