A lot of lawyering is done automatically at this point. 30,000 emails at a page each email can be digested and have relevant information produced within a half hour.

Packages like Litify, Lawmatics, and Clio exist to move terabytes of data into five page summaries in about two to three hours if you have the right analyst working it.

Law offices complain like this to see if the judge will give them some extra time because extra time is extra time, but something like 10TB for complex business cases is pretty normal run of the mill stuff for some of the top tier analysis software.

Millions of pages just sounds big if you try doing by hand, but no law office at this level has some paralegal or team of paralegals trying to run through millions of Excel spreadsheets or emails. Law offices have long since left that whole error prone approach.

Given what’s been said about the data so far, even in the most complex situation, two weeks tops for any software product worth its salt to chew through all of it and have a solid foundation to what’s being presented.

Shit like this has been automated for like the last fifteen almost twenty years now. So many people think automation coming to kill all the jobs, man most people don’t even realize how many it’s already killed.

The numbers sound big (and they are) but a lot of it will be stuff that can be scanned out pretty quickly. He does not have to read and absorb every word, just understand which particular sets of records are being presented as evidence of criminality.

I do agree that he should be given enough time to prepare his case. He can stay in prison for as long as it takes. Had he not broken his bail conditions, he could do it from the comfort of his parents' home. But he did, so he can't.

Maybe don't commit 4 million pages worth of crimes.

Checked math, you're right. And 50ppm is only a slightly slower laser office-scale printer, so fair enough on that too. I have seen a 100ppm printer in a court, but even still that's literally weeks of printing.

We really need to re-evaluate this whole legal paper data storage model, the judicial system alone must be chewing through the Amazon.

The trees aren't a big deal, really. Most paper comes from farmed trees. It's the chemicals they treat the wood with to break it down into pulp that's the real problem.

you forgot to account for paper jams and calls to hp support because a new cartridge wasn't recognized by their firmware as 'genuine... then the time to run to costco for a couple non-hp printers to finish the job.

He's a billionaire with a seven figure (?) bail.

Why can't he get enough lawyers to filter what's important and have his primary team review it?

He was not in jail, but he tried to influence witnesses.

Now he's in jail and complaining about it. He deserves no second chance.