Practice systems
The paperless office – 12 months on
On 6 September 2010, Abney Garsden McDonald solicitors took the plunge, and went paperless. In a previous article I described the process of evolution from conventional paper files, through scanning all incoming correspondence in 2003, to “paperless” a year ago. We now have clean desks, fewer filing cabinets, large bins for shredding on each floor […]
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Microsoft solutions stacking up in legal
Microsoft already “own” the lawyers’ desktop, where lawyers live in Outlook for emails and appointments and produce documents in Word. Microsoft also deliver behind the scenes on infrastructure, software and services in the cloud, operating systems, SQL, reporting services, business intelligence, virtualisation, thin client, SAN technologies … and much more. We believe that the Microsoft […]
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The paperless office – second time lucky?
In a previous article, long, long ago, I described how we tried to go paperless in 2003 but failed largely for human reasons. On 6 September 2010 we succeeded. Why? This article explains. We have been scanning in post since 2003. I personally have been paperless ever since then, but no one else joined me. […]
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