Author: Peter Garsden
Peter Garsden is senior partner of Abney Garsden McDonald Solicitors of Cheadle Hulme in Cheshire. The firm has the largest dedicated child abuse compensation department in the country (abuselaw.co.uk). They run several group actions, and have a legal aid franchise.
Paperless or paper-light?
What has happened so far? In previous articles I have described how it took Abney Garsden McDonald solicitors 7 years to go paperless. The things most people want to know are: Is it possible to go completely paperless? What do you do with the paper? What were the obstacles/problems? How much did you save and […]
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The paperless office – 12 months on
On 6 September 2010, Abney Garsden McDonald solicitors took the plunge, and went paperless. In a previous article I described the process of evolution from conventional paper files, through scanning all incoming correspondence in 2003, to “paperless” a year ago. We now have clean desks, fewer filing cabinets, large bins for shredding on each floor […]
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The paperless office – second time lucky?
In a previous article, long, long ago, I described how we tried to go paperless in 2003 but failed largely for human reasons. On 6 September 2010 we succeeded. Why? This article explains. We have been scanning in post since 2003. I personally have been paperless ever since then, but no one else joined me. […]
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