Many if not all federal court clerk of courts REQUIRE paperless filing of documents. Attorneys who regularly appear on cases are required to have an email to facilitate email distributions and notices.
The advent of paperless filing has significantly reduced the need for the “monster” copier in the law office in the federal arena.
That might be the case. There are far more state and county courts, however, (Which handle far more cases) that require paper. And special binding, etc. My brother works in a print shop, BTW.
I work for a small (less than 50 employees) engineering firm and we have, literally, TONS of records. For liability reasons, some have to be kept forever. They will never be digitally archived because there isn't the time or money to do it. Are you telling me my company afford to scan every invoice it has received over the last 30 years and throw away the paper copy? Are you telling me my company has the time and money to scan every new invoice and toss out the paper copy? Are you telling me our company can trust that the current digital formats will be viable 30 years from now? How in hell is my company supposed to archive as-built notes hand-written on 24"x36" drawings? Have you ever tried to get a 24"x36" scanned?
The paperless office is a geek fantasy.
I am happy to say that I have a paperless office and it’s a huge time saver.