Data Security and Attorney-Client Privilege
The following report will clarify how the electronic file can supplement the conventional file. Hereby emphasis is on the description of a solution with practical applications which, although it does not completely eliminate the mountains of documents with which an attorney now is confronted, nevertheless substantially reduces an attorney's involvement with paper.
The technical development will also shake the principles of the attorney-client privilege.
Skeptics Of The "Paperless" Office
"Burst dream of a paperless office" – so titled "The World Online" its report on a study in year 1999 by the business consulting firm Boston Consulting Group on the worldwide use of paper. There it was predicted that PC printers would be able to handle approximately double their paper capacity by the year 2003. Recent studies in Australian offices show that, despite the electronic revolution since 1983, the consummation of paper has increased five fold.
