The bottom line? Larger firms can probably save hundreds of thousands of dollars of wasted (unbillable) time if they adopt a smarter approach to document formatting. Not to mention lower rates of blindness and insanity, as their lawyers spend less time poring over fat documents, checking and re-checking all the cross references (Roberta overlooks this bonus in her article).
Formatting issues have definately plagued the legal community long before digital word processing. But now in a digital age we have the solution to these problems at our very own fingertips. With the use of new technology services much of the formatting and drafting stages of a document are practically done for us. For example by using an automated document assembly tool there is no longer a need to struggle with something as menial as formatting issues. It is time that we focus more on our content and let technology handle the headaches associated with assembly.
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