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Use In Smaller Trials
The consensus from the Estate Mortgage post-mortem was that the savings in time and legal costs from the system were translatable into shorter and smaller trials involving three to four lever arch folders of documents and that use of the same system would lower the cost of litigation and make litigation more accessible to small as well as large firms. For,
- Everyone has computers of sufficient power;
- The software used was off the shelf and cheap, (e.g. Netscape and Microsoft Access);
- List of documents and copies of documents are normally produced anyway;
- Data entry can be done at an average cost of $30.00 per hour by data entry companies (solicitors $160 to $450 per hour);
- Imaging cost less than twenty cents per page for original image (cost diminishing?) and less than 1 cent per page for copies of images.
It will reduce the cost to the parties if court staff (eg Judge's Associate and Tipstaff) can replace the courtroom operator and other IT court staff provide the technical support (savings of from $750 per day to $1500 per day).
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