Ad Litem Consulting, Inc.

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The goal of these tasks is to organize and manage internal firm operations. The Department COO undertakes these initiatives in an effort to bring order and consistency to litigation technology in the firm. One example of such an initiative is the organization of folders on file servers. This goal does not directly further any case goals. It does, however, benefit all litigation. Other initiatives require the support of the managing partners, such as instituting a firm technical standard or moving the responsibility for contracting electronic discovery goods and services to the Litigation Support Department.

Firm Level Initiatives

• Assign Roles to Persons Roles (then assign responsibilities to roles)
• Personalize the Technical Standards (publish a firm standard)
• Assess the Firm (and determine course of action)
• Initiate a "boot camp" where all Litigation Support persons learn the best practices template)
• Begin Tracking Billables (to pay for resources)
• Organize the Network (to begin applying security and disaster recovery)
• Qualify Vendors (and exclude bad vendors)
• Resource Initiatives (hardware, software and people)
• Determine Services (what to perform internally and what to outsource)
• Update the firm's "Client-Matter Intake" (at what stage legal should involve Litigation Support)
• Initiate a "Network Clean-Up" (the search for errant historical folders)
• Create an maintain a "Media Inventory" (the ability to locate any media for any case in moments)

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