Law firms and corporations are so chock-full of data these days that keeping track of it all can on occasion be prohibitively difficult. There's plenty of incentive to give it the old college try, though. Data harvested from contracts, emails and other everyday sources can provide useful insights about the way a firm, corporate legal department or organization in general functions. It's all well and good to want to move toward efficiency, but first you have to know where there's either fat to trim or profits to maximize. Here are a few things to think about when trying to find—or just not lose—data.