Monday, December 12, 2011

What Are The Litigation and Document Review Services And Where are The Best Place to Find Them?

By Maragaret Peretz


The Law firms, as well as the corporations that deal with legal issues on a regular basis, commonly require litigation and document review services, for which they have two options which are: hiring in house professionals, or outsourcing their needs to a legal support provider. However, large law firms and corporations opt for the former. In order to cut costs, there are many entities that outsource their support needs, which commonly include such services as: court reporting, translation, documents retrieval, documents review, and complex litigation support. As one would suspect, a single service provider for such needs would be ideal, that is both practically and economically. This provided an end result where there are many law firms and corporations that hire legal support services through court reporting agencies, which offer the aforementioned services, as well as others.

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A court reporting agency is the best place to retain a case where a law firm or a corporation needs litigation support and document review services. Here below are the three reasons on why.

1. What Do We Mean By Breadth of Support?

In terms of litigation support, there are some reporting agencies that commonly offer complex litigation support, a form of legal assistance that focuses on helping attorneys interpret and process case evidence during cases whose characteristics make them more complex than other cases, such as: a high volume of deponents; a small window of time to gather evidence for trial; and documents that involve complex, non-legal subject matter, to name a few. Without spending undue time processing evidence that contributes to the strategies, the attorneys are allowed to focus on developing legal strategies, and this is brought about by the litigation support specialists.

2. Overview of the Full Range of Document Retrieval Services

There are many reporting agencies that offer both option, with some of the most commonly retrieved documents being: Social Security documents, police reports, payroll and personnel files, and HIPAA records, and this is after considering the need for document review assistance that is commonly preceded by the need for document retrieval assistance. And this is because, there are many custodians of records that will not release records in response to a subpoena alone, where having a service on your side that handles authorization forms and testament of assurance forms that are now required to obtain many documents only makes sense.

3. What Are The Provision of Document Review Facilities?

Reviewing documents is similar to conducting depositions and this is in terms of setting. Consider, if your setting lacks less than optimal accommodations, then properly conducting reviews will be more difficult from the start. A 24-hour a day availability, secured card-key access, manned security stations, redundant power, pre-installed technology, private offices, kitchen facilities, Internet carousels, and office equipment, are the important elements for a properly outfitted review facility. In addition to offering facilities with these benefits, the reporting agencies can also conduct documents analysis at a client's facilities, as well as to produce data within its client's technology platforms or its own.




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