In today's business market, the legal services industry is challenged by many factors-managing enormous numbers of legal documents, storing case files and quickly retrieving the information, and sharing documents across the firm. By understanding the unique business needs of legal service, Canon offers a full line of hardware and software solutions to address your document imaging needs for capturing, managing, delivering, and archiving information.
Creating digital documents to reduce overhead costs.
In the nations 17,500 courts, on average, over 85 million cases are filed each year, generating more than 1.5 billion documents. It is estimated that over $11 billion is spent annually on warehousing those hard copy documents. Canons solutions can demonstrate how to reduce your carrier, courier, and storage costs.
Converting Documents
Canon solutions enable legal firms to scan hardcopy documents into digital files. The digital documents can then be accessed at any time by the legal firm, and copies are made only when necessary.
Reducing carrier costs
Digital documents can reduce a legal firms carrier costs since no additional fax dial tone charges are necessary. They can be sent as I-faxes, utilizing the existing network connection.
Searching Documents
A legal firms case document searches can be simplified by using Canon solutions. These enable a search by key words, properties, dates, and annotations in multiple formats such as PDF, TIFF, Microsoft Word and Excel, and more. As a result, legal firms can reduce the amount of time they spend gathering, collating, and searching through hard copy documents.
Bill-back/Job Accounting
Canon's solutions in cost recovery for bill-back/job accounting enable legal firms to account for all printed, copied, and faxed output produced for either a client or internal use. With this information, these outputs may now be charged back to the client, reducing the overhead costs that would have been incurred.