John F Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”. The great Winston Churchill concluded, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often”. As an amateur philosopher, I appreciate George Bernard Shaw’s observation that “progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”.
Law firms are constantly looking for more cost-effective ways to manage their compliance risks when archiving their clients’ matters. Most lawyers understand that both electronic and paper records should be retained for a minimum period (for example seven years) before it can be securely destroyed. Which means a huge operational costs over a long period of time.
The world has been a crazy place the last couple of years, and everyone was forced to adapt to a new 'norm' whilst feeling a great amount of fear, confusion or anxiety brought by deep uncertainties and insecurities of the future.
Law firms across the world trust Fileman to pick up, process, present and preserve confidential data at no charge to their firms. You can also save on space and reduce your monthly overhead storage expenses, plus increase billable hours.
We add structure to your unstructured data, giving you easy access to your matter's documents in a secure, digital format, anytime, anyplace from within our simple to use cloud matter management portal.
Within the current climate, a high percentage of staff in law firms are working from home or spending less time in the office. This change is presenting the need, and opportunity, for law firms to step back and review their existing systems when archiving historic and newly created closed physical matters. Instead, they are exploring the option of digital archiving.
For many law firms overhead expenses associated with file archiving result in professional fees subsidising these expenses. To address this Fileman provides a file archiving cost recovery solution designed for law firms, so that your professional fees need not subsidise these expenses. This is designed to eliminate your file archiving overhead expenses, whilst freeing up valuable commercial office space and saving you time to spend on client-related tasks that are more profitable.
Compliance with legislative requirements around retention and destruction of client information is critical for all businesses but in particular, those who hold extensive amounts of personal and sensitive information such as law firms.
The preservation of files is vital in keeping you matters safe and secure over their entire life cycle (normally 7 years) to ensure information remains authentic, reliable, discoverable, and accessible.
‘Technology’ isn’t just about innovation. It is about making something work more effectively and efficiently. It is about automating workflows, reducing costs and improving processes which take up time – Particularly time that isn’t generating revenue for the business.