United States

Find out with our E-Service Cost Savings Calculator

Print. Copy. Stuff. Pay postage. Repeat. Consider the number of documents you serve or are served every month. The preparation, delivery and management of these documents can be a costly and labor-intensive activity.

File & Serve electronic service (E-Service) offers a time, effort and expense-saving alternative to conventional paper-based service of documents.

To explore the potential savings for your practice, try our exclusive E-Service Cost Savings Calculator below:

Want to learn more?

What is File & Serve E-Service?

Take a Tour

Help Define a New Practice Standard for Your Litigation Practice

Take our brief Electronic Service Survey.

E-SERVICE COST SAVINGS CALCULATOR

Enter values into the boxes below (all fields required).
We have provided standard estimates for your convenience.

Name:

Firm Name:

ESTIMATE THE VOLUME OF YOUR SERVICE ACTIVITY
(not including service of process)

Documents you are serving to other firms

Number of different documents you serve each month in a typical case

Number of pages per document

Number of recipients to whom you serve each of those documents

Average number of active cases during a typical month

Incoming documents being served on you

Documents per month received

Number of litigation attorneys in your firm (including you)

ESTIMATE YOUR PAPER-BASED COSTS

Conventional paper costs

Paper cost per copy

Envelope cost per envelope

Label cost per label

Minutes to prepare, sign, and send

Hourly Rate/Cost (with benefits)

Postage per document served (calculated for you based on U.S.P.S. schedules)

Processing incoming documents being served on you

Opening mail, copying, distribution (minutes per document)

Other expenses

Monthly cost per square foot for office space (for calculating file storage)

Time it takes to find and pull an individual case file (minutes)

Number of case files pulled each month for review

Estimated annual paper-based costs per attorney

Assumptions for calculating E-Service costs

E-Service transaction fee is less than $10.00

No costs for paper, envelopes labels, postage, or storage

Preparation time is typically less than 5 minutes and access
to incoming service or archived documents takes only seconds

Estimated annual E-Service per attorney

Potential annual cost reduction per attorney
Potential annual firm savings is
Potential annual percentage savings of