Wednesday, October 04, 2006

The Paperless Office - Revisited

The Legal Office is often just a great big paper processing machine. It receives, files, retrieves, creates, file notes, collates, copies, distributes and archives paper - piles of it. Think Conveyancing, think Commercial Litigation.

Whilst the term the "Paperless Office" was coined in the 80s with the advent of the PC and the wordprocessor, these tools actually spurred an addiction to paper no different to the junkie's addiction to heroin.

But we now have the tools available to create "digital paper". PDF techonology is the new Digital Paper and it can be just as addictive as crack cocaine.

Here's one experts take on the Paperless Office.

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