CHAPTER 1

History of Law Firm Workflows

Predigital Days

Technology has made it much simpler and easier to perform routine tasks that law firms typically need to get done. The legal field isn’t the same as a short decade ago, back when they had to rely on copies of physical contracts and paper catalogs of online research databases. These advancements have made life easier for lawyers, not to mention their clients!

When we look back at technology pre-1980s, the law firm had dictation machines, a typewriter, telephones, maybe a Paymaster check writer, and a calculator. That was our technology in the predigital days. I still remember seeing the first fax machine coming into an office and being amazed that the fax machine sent a document somehow through ...

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