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About the Author
Steve Irons is the President of DocSolid, a market-leading provider of
Paper2Digital solutions for the legal market. He has founded three
document imaging ventures, holds nine patents and is a Magna Cum
Laude graduate of Northern Arizona University.
Contact Steve at sirons@docsolid.com.
Keeping paper records in law firms is a major
expense and causes inefficiency and risk.
About half of all attorneys still prefer to work with paper, so
most law firms continue to have files and folders, file rooms and offsite
records storage. If you want scanning, you need to perform some kind of
magic at the copier.
We need to fix this by creating a fully digital matter file. This liberates
the practice of law from the chains of paper records and produces cost
savings, efficiencies and risk reductions that are vital to compete in
today's legal practice. The way forward to a fully digital matter file is
through a paper-to-digital (P-to-D) initiative, a multi-year project with ROI
milestones along the way. A P-to-D initiative requires a comprehensive
plan envisioned and championed by firm leadership, supported by policy
and executed by practice groups and staff that steadily advance to a
better workplace.
A Paper-to-Digital
Master Plan
