It should be noted that the litigation trial managed a substantially smaller set of documents than the Utility Commission Rate Case hearing – the production was roughly one third that of the rate case hearing. However, even with these significant savings, CEA's legal team describes the much greater role of Laserfiche in the trial gave the legal team the ability to find information immediately that in the past would never have even been attempted to be located due to the impossible nature of finding it manually in paper files .

For example, Laserfiche allowed attorneys to

1)  Respond immediately to disprove accusations by their opponent that they were never given certain information, as CEA was able to immediately locate and produce the document with the bates stamp proving it was part of CEA's discovery;

2) Attorney arguments were frequently bolstered on spur of the moment issues by immediately locating quotes where a specific phrase was said, or instructions given, within discovery documents or depositions. Accounting Significant time and cost savings have resulted from the imaging of accounting invoices, including reduced paper handling, immediate retrieval, and rapid distribution. Invoices are scanned once and departmental managers use the company intranet to view invoices, without the need to contact the Accounting Department.