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. 

The power of email

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.