SOLUTION:  E-filing would allow judges to have online access to case files, which would eliminate the need for travel between courthouses when no trials or hearings are set for that courtroom. Not only would taxpayers save on travel expense, it would reduce the time Judges spend traveling, thereby improving productivity.  Online calendar access will enable trials to be set promptly and eliminate the slow, cumbersome trial setting questionnaire process.

PROBLEM:  Storage of paper files is expensive, not only in terms of the physical space they take up, but they are difficult to search, and they can become lost or misfiled. 

SOLUTION:  Electronically filed documents, as well as paper documents that have been scanned into a portable document format (.pdf) take up very little space:  for example, on a 2 gigabyte flash drive, which is about the size of your thumb, you can store more than 7,500 eight-page documents (265kb per document).   Electronic documents can be retrieved in seconds.