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Friday, July 17, 2015

There Are Benefits To Using A Legal Document Scanning Service

By Loris F. Ander


An attorney may have multiple clients and cases he is dealing with at any given time. When the time comes to prove something in a court of law, he must have written proof of the point that needs clarification. For that reason, using a legal document scanning service has become almost a necessity in any sizable law practice.

The lawyer cannot afford to waste time shuffling through papers each time one is needed. He could miss a deadline required by the court by doing so. Possibly the one needed is misplaced or thrown away by mistake. This complex stack of paperwork may be reduced to an easily accessible amount of data, rather than clogging his office desk.

It takes time and experience to sort out documents and less important papers to store. A scanning service with experience can perform this task much more efficiently. They will transform an untidy stack of papers into a neatly and easily accessible databank in digital form. Nothing is lost and nothing is in the way until it is needed.

Each corporation or practice has its own specific way of doing things and the databank created must support it. An attorney knows what to hold on to and what to put in the circular file. Usually everything is retained.

The order of the files is important to make them easily accessible. Some need to have staples removed and pages repaired. A scanning company should perform a quality review before adding them to the databank.

The discards are not simply thrown away where someone could retrieve them. They are shredded in a way that makes it impossible to put the information back into a readable format. That can be guaranteed.

The originals will be stored or shredded according to the attorneys wishes. Shredding is thorough enough that there is no chance it can be restructured. A storage service will guarantee that. Fortune 500 companies may store billions and billions of pieces of information. However, the smallest law practice can also benefit from this practical way to save time and possible loss.

However, for a new law firm or an established one without a plan, the scanning project can integrate one that will be suitable. Files can be set up for accident claims, personal injury cases and criminal defense or tax lawyers. The needs of each legal department can be kept separately for convenience of recovery. Time is money. The amount of time such a system will save is invaluable to the profits of the firm.




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