The County of Hawai`i’s Office of the Corporation Counsel is fully enjoying the use of Laserfiche. Our staff members enjoy the flexibility of making Laserfiche “our own” – suited for our unique office. We enjoy the simple features such as emailing directly from Laserfiche, dragging & dropping documents, Bates Numbering and the efficient search tools. Our Counseling & Drafting Division within our Department has reaped the benefits of using Laserfiche. The response time to our clients has been outstanding. We get a lot more done in less time and because of this the morale of our staff has gone up.
We are currently working on implementing Phase II of Laserfiche within our Litigation Division. This is a very exciting time for our staff! Litigation files can be quite a challenge due to its complex and voluminous size but we have faith that Laserfiche is up for the challenge to make Phase II a success! We are already off to a great start. The Bates Numbering feature is really big for us! At times, a file can have over 1,000 pages that need numbering – the process of using Bates Numbering surely beats hearing that old “Bates” clunker machine 1,000+ times in one day! The use of the redaction tool has also proved beneficial to confidential information that must be kept hidden. If anyone has experience with legal files using Laserfiche, we’d love to hear from you!
Laserfiche has truly helped our department purge many, many boxes of files. In fact, we were able to donate several filing cabinets to a local high school that lost their filing cabinets in a fire.
What’s next for our department? We are working on using Digital Signatures for our documents. We are very excited about this new technology as it will open many new doors for our staff members.
One more exciting event for our office is our 6th Annual Municipal Attorney’s Training Conference to be held at the beautiful Hilton Waikoloa Village. We are fortunate to have Steve Hackney from the Laserfiche Institute conduct training sessions for our users. We are thrilled to have this valuable training brought to our island. Many of our County employees are interested in attending and plan to walk away with some knowledge that will benefit them in their daily work lives using Laserfiche! Welcome to Hawai`i, Steve!
Our office is just as active with our Laserfiche program as the volcanoes are erupting on our island!
Till next time…..aloha & mahalo!
For attorneys, dealing with boxes and boxes of paper discovery documents is the norm. But as courts and prosecuting attorneys are beginning to provide documents digitally, defense attorneys can be caught unprepared.
