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After 25 years in pra
need to process each
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to accumulate. As th
Paper then starts to a
work at 50% producti
Although this scenar
attorneys reading thi
Since the early 1990’
go on holiday for two
or things to do. Now
spam or are irrelevan
As fast as paper pile
down almost to a sto
emails in various fold
Where is this all going
in order to stay abrea
My document nirvana
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system;
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ctice as an attorney, my biggest stressor remains the amount of paper which I
day. No matter how efficient my secretary, over any given period more and
rts to disappear and paper seems to accumulate exponentially. The reason is
e one document which I think I will deal with later, so a backlog of paper starts
e backlog accumulates and takes up more space, so I become more inefficient.
ccumulate at an exponential rate, finally clogging up the system and having me
vity.
io may sound extreme, I want to suggest that up to three quarters of the
s article will know exactly what it is I am talking about.
s, email has become an added factor. There was a time in my life when I could
weeks, come back and find half a dozen notes on my chair about people to call
I go out of the office for a day and come back to over 100 emails. If 30% are
t, this still leaves me 70 to deal with, print out, file or at least read.
s up, emails pile up even more quickly. Some time ago my computer slowed
p. I only got it going again after deleting something like 16,000 accumulated
ers.
? The answer, very simply, is that attorneys’ practices need to change radically
st of the demands of modern communications.
looks like this:
see all of my desk, save for the space taken up by my computer;
ther documents intuitively knowing where they belong in an electronic filing
a handful of emails in my Inbox at any one time;
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an electronic filing