As discoverable content continues to grow at an accelerating rate, much of it has found its way into Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint's collaboration tools, its flexible management of documents and other data, and tight integration with Microsoft's Office suite has spurred its wide adoption in the legal industry. But SharePoint's flexibility also presents challenges, both for organisations that need to manage data contained in SharePoint sites, and for law firms tasked with executing sound electronic data discovery (EDD) methods.

Globally organisations are struggling with implementing their information retention plans as only a third report theirs is fully operational, according to Symantec’s 2012 Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey *.

Can information managers learn from the way that search tools are increasingly being used to support legal e-Discovery practices? Andrew Warland asks the question and looks at the replated problem of  classifying digital records.