The Arizona Bar Association has approved the move to a paperless law offices. In a June decision they said firms may keep electronic images for current and past cases. With clients permission a firm may even destroy the originals to save money on storage.

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After natural disasters and fires many people return to their home to find all their important documents destroyed. This is even worse when the insurance policy is one of the documents that is not longer legible.

However companies are sprouting up to provide online storage for digitized versions of the documents. Customers can access their documents via a password protected website. WebSafe will even give you a 50Mb account to try out the service. This is an affordable way for individuals to protect their most sensitive data.