The Paperless Office as a Risk Management Enterprise

Jim Calloway, Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program, brings up a great point about going Paperless:  it's safer!

In his article, The Paperless Office as a Risk Management Enterprise, in the ABA Law Practice Today blog, Jim writes that one of the best things about going paperless is that it is in your own best interest to do so.

 When you are paperless, your whole practice is digital and thus your whole practice can be backed up and stored off site.  Maybe your office won't burn down, blow up, get caught in a hurricane, or be burgled, but maybe it will.  I personally know several lawyers who in fact have their offices burn down, one whose office blew up because of a gas leak, and several who have been robbed.  Todd Scott from Minnesota Lawyers Mutual spent the better part of the Spring of 2008 in Iowa helping lawyers whose offices were underwater.  Every single one of those lawyers is going paperless as they rebuild their offices.

As he concludes, "Maybe the very best reason to have a digital law practice is that you can back up your data and store it offsite so that you can recover your data and return to productivity in the event of a disaster, small or large."  For Jim's full article:  The Paperless Office as a Risk Management Enterprise

- Peter H. Berge