subject: Highlighting Difference Between Electronic And Paper Files [print this page] Paper usage seems to be quite comfortable and easy for any person. It is high on portability, easy to read and browse. Reading some pages and coming back to them when needed can be easily done. However for the attorneys two qualities have immensely restricted the damage on paper-based information that could be caused. One is that when it is discarded, it is completely gone and second is that it is pretty stupid. These two qualities have kept the managing process of legal documents pretty much simple. Then there are electronic files which are mainly messing up things at a greater level. The lawyers are beginning to realize the graveness of the troubles these files have been presenting before them. To clearly understand the concept and situation, there is a need that a deeper look is taken at the domain of technology or electronic information.
Discarding- When a lawyer does not require a certain paper or file containing info relating legal regulations, he would throw them away, after which, two things would occur.One is that it would land up the dumping ground and probably before being found it would rot and then finally be consumed or someone could find it, but in the second case the chances are bleak. Given the document has been shredded, it becomes impossible to get an access to the information again if needed. Now what happens with the electronic document is that even after deleting the document, the data would be present on your system. The minute bits that make a document are capable at existing even after getting deleted. Just the document name gets removed from the filing index. One can convert to pdf the corresponding book remains to be there on the shelf. This could one big trouble for the lawyers because the idea is to get rid of the documents completely which does not happen. Even if by any chance you decide to remove them from the shelf, there is a backup copy of the same documents and they exist within a good number of locations in the library.
