The caveat to all this is that the amount of discoverable data for any company at any given moment is likely dozens or hundreds of times what it would have been a few decades ago.
Nowadays, you can produce thousands or even millions of electronic files without burning so much as a calorie, making it easy to comply with discovery requests - so long as you know your way around modern eDiscovery. Legal teams everywhere are shedding zero tears as they wave goodbye to the old ways of discovery, when feverishly rummaging through mountains of physical documents was the status quo.
