Records Whitepapers

Lowering the cost of managing paper records - Download Whitepaper

In this age of electronic communications, it is easy to forget the huge costs associated with the management of the existing paper record, let alone that this paper record is still increasing in volume.

It is often thought that the most cost effective option is to do nothing, but that is simply not the case. The introduction of good records management practices, and the associated technologies will bring almost instant returns, and will certainly pay for themselves in a very short period.

The costs are both tangible and intangible. You get a bill every month from your storage provider, but how much fee earning time is lost searching for files, and how much office space is wasted because no one can identify the files, or the records system is a ‘black hole’ from which nothing ever returns.

iCompli Records Management Whitepaper - Download Whitepaper

“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” Mark Twain once wrote, and this sums up very well the current situation with paper records in Law Firms. The recent emphasis has been, quite rightly, on the management of the burgeoning electronic file. The requirement to effectively classify and catalogue e-mails, Word documents, attachments and all other formats of electronic records has exercised the minds of IT directors, document management suppliers and records managers for a number of years, and it is fair to say that, as yet no mature model has yet emerged.