In 1873 the president of the Philological Society of London declared that linguists «shall do more by tracing the historical growth of one single work - a-day tongue, than by filling wastepaper baskets with reams of paper covered with speculations on the origin of all tongues.» (discovermagazine.com)
If you didn't see «hone their QuickLaw skills noting up cases,» «undertake due diligence on reams of paper in a drawn - out discovery process» or «serve a Statement of Claim on an elusive defendant» on that list, it's probably because the articling process ostensibly should involve these sorts of things only occasionally. (slaw.ca)
In the digital age, instead of reams of paper piled high on a desk, we have megabytes being stored on a hard drive or in the cloud. (tonyzambito.com)