Going Paperless (well as paperless as possible)

Today, I begin an experiment to see if I can convert my office into a paperless one. There is one problem though, I have, technically at least, I cannot succeed: letters, orders, claim forms, agreements and a whole plethora of other documents require my, physical signature. I am sure many American lawyers work this way already but it is a relative rarity in the UK. This is my plan:-

1. Hard copy documents to be scanned on a daily basis. I have ordered a Fujitsu Scan Snap to replace my HP 3030. Hard copy documents will be boxed up and stored.
2. Scans will be stored in DocumentWallet. DW will be backed up daily to the second hard drive on my Mac and weekly to an external hard drive. I would like to be able to share the DocumentWallet library between my G5 and MacBook. I am not sure how to do this yet. It may well be just a simple matter of sharing the library file. Also the setting up of the fields in DocumentWallet is crucial I need to be able to capture the right information over a range of documents, everything from pleadings to faxes to contracts to witness statements. This is quite a difficult exercise.

3. I will begin a retrospective scan of all my other documents. This could take weeks.

It seems so simple at this stage…..I really have not thought this out properly. However, I am taking what I would call a “Russian Engineering Approach”: get going and work out the kinks as you go along.