E-discovery professionals have always known their jobs entails a race against data. And they've often heard—and repeated—an aphorism lest they forget: Remember, data volumes are growing at breakneck speeds. But almost a year into a remote workforce transition, they need no more reminding.

"The amount of digital data, we've always heard it's increasing exponentially. I think this has just compounded that problem," said Toby Stinson, manager, law data and applications at Chevron.

Corporate e-discovery teams are dealing with an unprecedented deluge of discoverable data. compliments of the chat tools, videoconference platforms and collaboration software that are now essential to keeping a company's gears running. It's both a thrilling technology transformation, and a daunting dilemma.