Case Study: Stephen Plopper & Associates achieves faster, paperless document management with Square 9 Softworks

GlobalSearch® Document Management and the Case of Plopper vs. Paper

Stephen Plopper & Associates, an Indianapolis business law firm specializing in corporate, international, and mergers-and-acquisitions work, struggled to manage a high volume of legal documents efficiently. Before adopting Square 9 Softworks’ GlobalSearch document management system, the firm relied on slow, manual processes and ad hoc file storage that made documents hard to retrieve and easy to lose.

Square 9 Softworks implemented GlobalSearch with custom configuration through Impact Networking, enabling scanning, indexing, and fast PDF preparation for court filings. The results were significant: in six months, the firm stored about 300 documents and more than 3,000 pages, cut PDF prep time from 2–3 hours to under 10 minutes, and saved over 100 attorney-hours worth more than $16,000, boosting document-processing productivity by 4 to 5 times.