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Preface

To Litigation Support Professionals

Mr. Lieb has provided Litigation Support to legal teams for cases ranging from small collections to multi-national, multi-firm litigation, involving millions of pages of discovery. He currently consults with firms, service bureaus and software companies on litigation technology and standards.

Mr. Lieb is the co-founder and technical hand behind the Litigation Support Vendors Association. The LSVA, a not-for-profit organization, provides online forums and discussions moderated by industry experts and representatives from major software companies, and covering topics from computer forensics and electronic discovery to best practices and standards.

In March of 2004, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich generously made Litigation Support Technical Standards public to help the industry formulate standards and best practices. Mr. Lieb continues to update the document; as of November, 2005, the document has been downloaded over 1,600 times by a wide range of vendors and law firms.

Litigation Support Department, Mr. Lieb’s most recent book, outlines both how to run the Litigation Support Department, organized as a business, and how to use technology to support and help win the case. The text discusses how the Litigation Support Department can provide a consistent product and experience for the legal team, vendors and associated parties. The book includes discussions and diagrams of case life-cycle, work-flow, budget, strategies, tactics, check-lists, roles, responsibilities, and more. Also included is a Litigation Budget spreadsheet file, among others. Establish standards in your firm and enjoy the benefit of consistency.

Mr. Lieb provides consulting services for individual cases and firm-level best practices implementation that can save a firm hundreds of thousands of dollars in operating costs per year.

Preface

To Litigation Support Professionals