Every lawyer is familiar with the problem.
You are out of the office, traveling, and urgent documents come in the mail or over the office fax machine. Or, a client or colleague needs to get a document to you, and you are somewhere other than the office. Until recently, traveling lawyers and other professionals were stuck with having documents read over the telephone, or sent by overnight mail, or, worse, faxed to hotels. Anyone who has tried to locate a lost document in a pile of faxes at a hotel business center can relate. In addition, the recent capability of having documents scanned and faxed to travelers' notebook computers was complicated by the need to have the computer attached to the hotel room phone line, turned on, and the fax software set to automatically receive.