Best Practices in a Box?

Well, not in a box exactly -- on a CD, or on your hard drive, or on your firm's intranet. But fully functional, ready-to-use, and easy to apply.

The Litigation Best Practices in a Box^TM product is a set of best practices for the collection, management, and use of discovery information, based on decades of practical experience across all kinds of cases. It's a complete set of pre-defined best practices that you can apply right out of the box or use as a basis for developing your own, customized best practices.

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Best Practices in a Box covers all key discovery management tasks, from the start of your case to the finish: Everything from planning the case through collecting and screening information, through database building and vendor relationships, to effective use of the information you develop.

It's a complete package: overviews of each process, detailed methodologies for key tasks, budgeting and scheduling guidelines, -- even forms and logs. And it's all wrapped up and organized into a fully-linked, editable web site and delivered to you on a CD.

Load the Best Practices CD onto your server and use it as is -- a ready-to-go guide for lawyers, legal assistants, litigation support staff, and IT departments in how to handle every task in litigation information management.

Or take it piece by piece and customize it to fit your firm's special needs.

Either way, Litigation Best Practices in a Box will jumpstart your move to higher-quality, cost-effective litigation processes.

It's for lawyers...

Apply best practices with your litigation team and ensure that your cases are being handled in the highest quality, most cost-effective way.

It's for litigation support managers...

Make sure that your staff is all on the same page, that you're doing each task as efficiently as possible, and that you've got good documentation for every process.

It's for legal assistants...

Apply standard processes and best practices to each task so that they're done faster, better, and more consistently. At the same time, make it easier for staff to move from case to case, because systems work the same on every matter.

It's for practice improvement...

Make your practice more efficient and more effective by applying best practices across the board. There will be fewer emergencies, fewer mistakes, fewer lost hours, and better results.

It's for staff training...

These well-documented best practices are a great basis for staff training. They cover all the bases, they're clear and well-organized, and they're useful both for self-study and as the basis for group training.

It's for marketing...

Corporate clients want their money spent effectively, and they want to know that their outside counsel work effectively. A well-defined and well-implemented best practices program gives your clients that assurance.

It's for large firms...

Large firms have special problems with cross-practice efficiency, and best practices can have a huge impact in those firms. Even where best practices are, for the most part, already observed, they are often undocumented, and Best Practices in a Box can fill that void.

It's for small firms...

Small firms have two unique problems: They don't have the quantity of resources of their larger competitors, and they often can't justify specialists to work on tasks like best practices development. They can solve the first problem by being efficient -- and best practices can help them do just that. As for the second problem, Best Practices in a Box is itself the solution.

It's for corporations...

Responsibility for effective litigation management in a corporation ultimately falls back on the law department, whether the work is done in-house or by outside counsel. Some tasks inevitably involve the law department -- document collection, employee depositions, national case management, and consistency between cases, for example. Best practices cut costs and improve results.

It's for you...

You probably see yourself somewhere in one of the paragraphs above. If not, contact us and explain your situation. Maybe we can help.

Best Practices - Getting it right the first time

Best Practices for all key tasks! Everything from document collection to document production.

Customizable! These best practices will work right out of the box, but you may have some special procedures in your firm -- or for specific clients. That's ok, the product is customizable. Change a process so it fits better, or add a whole new process.

Procedures, logs, and forms! It's complete -- there is a background explanation for each task, along with detailed descriptions of processes, warnings about likely problems -- even ready-to-use forms and logs.

Guidelines for budgeting and scheduling. Simple formulas for developing real-world budgets and schedules.

Share it throughout your firm! Put it on your server and let all the members of your litigation team access it with their browsers.

Clear explanations! Processes are explained in plain English, not jargon, so they're equally accessible to lawyers, legal assistants, and your IT team.

Use it for staff training! New staff need to understand how your firm does things. New associates, well-trained in the law, need to get up to speed on the nuts and bolts of litigation tasks. Best Practices in a Box shows them, step-by-step, how things work and why.