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RealLegal, LLC
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The intelligence derived from Practice Manager™ influences expectations
The RealLegal® software system, starting with Practice Manager™, improves the business of law across all parties: from corporate clients to law firms to litigation support agencies.
Metzger, Wickersham, Knauss & Erb
Legal Departments
United Agri Products
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Svs.
Law Firms
Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP
McLane, Graf LLP
Service Agencies
DocuServe Litigation Support
Patricia Murray & Associates
There is a recurring theme in the industry these days: law firms are adopting the same operations principles found in Fortune 500 companies. From profit projections to return on investment justifications to resource utilization rates, the underlying theme is one of cost-center analysis and getting the biggest bang for the buck. It is no longer just the practice of law; it is the business of law.
As the only software vendor transforming operations within corporations, law firms and court reporting agencies, RealLegal® is a recurring theme as well. Starting with Fortune 500 companies like American Family Insurance, corporate legal departments use RealLegal Practice Manager™ to manage, control and analyze litigation costs. The statistics and intelligence derived from Practice Manager influence the expectations placed upon the outside law firms serving them. Furnished with data about the actual costs of representation, and equipped with the tools to audit invoices and evaluate billing compliance, corporate clients demand nothing short of what they require of other service providers: optimum performance, maximum efficiency, and budget sensitivity.
Subsequently, there is a trickle down effect impacting how law firms operate and what they expect from their respective service providers. The RealLegal philosophy is to build products that improve the business of law every step of the way.
Needing to adhere to the stipulations set-forth by clients, law firms deploy their own Practice Manager software to monitor expenses, resource utilization and workflow. They curtail investments in complex technologies that go largely under-used. They require greater ROI on capital expenses and deploy tools like RealLegal Binder™ and iBinder™ for superior — and budget sensitive — discovery management.
For example, with the OCR engine embedded in RealLegal Binder, law firms gain the efficiency of searchable documents without incurring the expense of outsourcing the conversion process. Likewise, RealLegal iBinder facilitates collaboration among experts and co-counsel while reducing travel expenses and overnight shipment charges. Remote users can login to iBinder, view streaming video depositions, add comments to the transcript, and provide immediate insight — all without purchasing special software. These discoveries have fueled a burgeoning adoption of RealLegal Binder/iBinder in the nation's most prominent law firms. In fact, during Q304, more than 1,500 professionals at AMLAW Top 50 firms became RealLegal Binder users.
Law firms also require more from their service providers. With more than 4,000 court reporting and litigation support agencies using RealLegal technology, law firms can find service providers that deliver greater value for every dollar spent. For instance, lit support agencies use RealLegal Publisher™ to provide comprehensive case libraries on compact disc. Without requiring any software, the attorney can carry all of the E-Transcript™ files, scanned documents and synced video footage from several cases inside a briefcase. Other service providers use RealLegal iBinder to provide attorneys with 24/7 Web access (again, no software required) to the materials from their cases. Such premier offerings help law firms squeeze more value from their own service providers and pass the fruits of those efficiencies along to their clients.
Unlike any other software vendor, RealLegal technology serves the entire legal industry from the top-down: Top legal departments analyze litigation costs; managing partners gain intelligence from practice data; attorneys get to the merits of the case quicker and provide better representation; reporting firms aggregate valuable collections of discovery to give attorneys a head start.
There's no other system like RealLegal.
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