What is the real cost of that printed page?

It has now been almost 3 years to the day that I stood at a multi-function printer overlooking the Brisbane River at about 7pm, running off several copies of a brief to Counsel. It was most certainly not my first, but it definitely was my last!

In the time since that moment I have made it my personal mission, through my role with Law In Order, to help lawyers and their teams understand the true costs associated with a staple task of administrative assistants, paralegals, and (more frequently than we would like to admit) graduates and junior lawyers.

So before you consider how to manage or mitigate some of these costs, it is important to get an understanding of what they are.

Actual Cost