So everyone knows we love Rocket Matter and Finis uses Rocket Matter as his case management system in his personal injury practice. Our friends over at Rocket Matter’s blog, which is also a great resource for other technological things for attorneys routinely post about technologies and articles to help the legal professional in his practice. Most recently, they have blogged about Finis’ favorite scanner, the Fujitsu ScanSnap, perhaps one of the best non-tank style scanners. Larry Port describes the ScanSnap best:
A Fujitsu ScanSnap is like Paris: when people talk about it, you can’t imagine it living up to the hype. But when it’s your turn to take a look, all expectations are completely surpassed.
We couldn’t agree more. The ScanSnap is small, lightweight and incredibly fast at scanning documents, all without jamming or misfeeding. Did we mention it comes with Adobe Acrobat as well as ABBY FineReader to automatically convert documents into Word docs? At any rate, RocketMatter has a great post about how to use the ScanSnap in your practice to develop a cheap (the ScanSnap runs approx. $500) legal document scanning system. Coupled with a program like Hazel, this rivals the large scale document management programs the large firms have.
The article discusses how to set up Profiles for quick and easy document scanning to a folder. From there, scanning incoming mail, correspondence, photographs and whatever else you need scanned is a breeze. Head over to Part 1 and Part 2 to read the rest.
And if you’re not using a ScanSnap or aren’t using RocketMatter as your case management system, give Finis a call or shoot him an email and he will be more than happy to tell you why you should be using both.