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Paper or Digital?
Where the legal industry weighs in.
With competition at an all-time high, nearly all law offices have turned to digitization and automation
to cut costs, improve records management and shore up compliance. Yet just 30 percent of firms are
truly reengineering work processes.1
It’s time to kick those paper-based habits—and tip the scales of
digitization in your favor.
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2. “Earth Week—A Few Facts About Paper Consumption.”
Shake Simply Legal, 2014.
3. “Law Firm Survey: It’s Not Easy Being Green; Unimportant Docs
Get Printed, Paper Costs Grow.” ABA Journal, 2011.
4. “ARE YOU AT RISK? The Biggest Malpractice Claim Risks and
How to Avoid Them.” American Bar Association, 2010.
5. “Fundamentals of Law Office Management.”
Pamela Everett-Nollkamper, 2013.
6. “Ten Ways Law Firms Lose a Lot of Money.” CBA Practice Link.
7. “New Survey Reveals Trends on Document Automation, Mobile Priorities
and Law Offices of the Future.” Legal IT Insider, 2014.
8. “ILTA’s 2014 Technology Survey.” International Legal Technology
Association, 2014.
9. “Just 22 Percent of Law Firms Use Encrypted Email.”
eSecurity Planet, 2014.
Up to 100,000 sheets of
paper are generated by a single
attorney on average per year.2
$900a year is spent
maintaining one standard
law firm filing cabinet.6
of firm managers say half
of their regularly printed
documents are unimportant.3
Up to 3 hours a day are wasted
looking for files, documents or
case information.5
of malpractice claims are due
to administrative errors, including
losing or misfiling documents.4
of firms are still struggling to
go “virtually paperless.”7
28.5%
95%
42%
of firms still do not
automate the tracking
of physical files.8
50%
Just 19% of firms use enterprise-
grade file collaboration services—
a red flag for security.9
Nearly 40%of firms do not have
software to manage ethical walls.8
20% of firms still do not
have software for records
management of physical files.8
Xerox can help you turn truckloads of paper into streamlined digital
workflows. So you can be the fast, compliant, cost-effective law firm
today’s clients demand.
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