Nothing was more illustrative to the amount of paper that law firms go through than working on a civil case. I was involved in a high profile case in Washington where two huge law firms were exchanging telephone book size motions on a daily basis. In an article on Law.com blog they refer to an article by the ABA saying, “a typical lawyer uses 20,000 to 100,000 sheets of copy paper a year.” Just one more reason to embrace electronic documents.
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Posted by Christian M. Frank Fas on September 25th, 2007 at 12:00 am:
I strongly agree that the best way to avoid the Paper Monster that goes along with complex civil litigation is to use, share and store paper digitally. Almost all of my files are digitally created, shared and stored. Great scanning comes with great responsibility, so make sure that you keep a healthy attitude towards multiple backups.
On the green side, its refreshing to see that another colleague helps out the environment by spreading the paperless gospel. In law school I hardly ever touched a printed case, and along the way, I practiced keeping everything in digital format. Little did I know that this was how I would wind up keeping my office files.
We’re riding the wave of the future my man, one less dead tree at a time.