dimanche 26 juillet 2015

A Legal Document Scanning Service Saves Time And Avoids Errors

By Loris F. Ander


A single attorney could be dealing with more than ten cases at a time, sometimes more. A large law firm may need to preserve thousands and thousands of important papers. A case being tried in front of a judge must present evidence to verify the facts in a case. This is where an efficient legal document scanning service can step in to provide invaluable support. If there is an appeal, documents may be needed five or more years down the line.

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.

In a courtroom the judge will rely on the original documents rather than copies. A software program can separate the two and retain both. The copies can be restored and made more legible.

Papers thrown out must be shredded beyond recognition. A service will guarantee that they are shredded sufficiently and rendered impossible to reassemble. That is an important guarantee for security purposes.

The larger the corporation, the larger the databank must be. Even a single attorney may have large numbers of papers to store. An analysis is done for each firm to help them decide the optimal way to preserve their privacy. There is no limit to the number of files that can be created for a company.

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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