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01 November 2018 / Matthew Kay , Natasha Adom
Issue: 7815 / Categories: Features , Profession , Technology
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Taming the paper monster

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Shred, store, or secure? Matthew Kay & Natasha Adom tackle the archiving conundrum

  • Law firms are increasingly seeing the benefits of cutting down on the paper and moving to the cloud.

What is that lurking in the storage cupboard, threatening to strew papers across the floor and make it so hard to find the one document you really need? It’s the paper monster. Beware…

It is no surprise, in the current economic climate, that there are increasing efforts from law firms and businesses alike to cut down on the paper they retain and use by using cloud-based IT and archiving systems. The driver for this is typically to reduce costs (of printing and of storing such documents), increase efficiency, or to decrease the environmental damage paper use is causing. However, there are also other hidden benefits to businesses of taming the paper monster—for example, modernising the workplace to allow agile working initiatives.

Shredding bad habits

There is a vast range in the types of archiving systems that are being used across the legal field.

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