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"What Going Paperless Means to Me"

This post was written by Bryan Sims: "One of the problems that I have when describing my paperless practice to others is the fact that my practice is not really paperless. I use plenty of paper. In fact, a couple of days ago, I mailed out close to 100 pages of paper in court filings and courtesy copies. Because of this, I have, at times, had trouble explaining exactly what I am talking about.

Fortunately for me, I have found the answer I have been looking for. I recently checked out the About Page on the Going Paperless blog by Molly DiBianca. In that About Page, she explains:

Although there seems to be a whole lot of chatter about what exactly a "paperless office" is, exactly, I'd suggest it's not so complicated.  Certainly, I still use paper.  And plenty of it, truth be told.  The "paperless" part is not that paper is not used-it's that paper is irrelevant.  In a paperless office (at least as I've defined it), there is no reliance on a paper file. Everything (and I mean everything) is filed electronically using a document-management system..."

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Source: The Connected Lawyer, 5 May 2010. © 2010 All Rights Reserved . Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).