Success

Best practices are only successful when they address the needs of everyone involved: legal team, lit support, vendors, clients and third parties. For those protocols to succeed, they must account for the level of support available today. Good planning, both in terms of protocols and staffing will result in a Litigation Support Department that can provide the goods and services.

Planning

Law firms need a plan. They must determine how they will cope with the need to find more Litigation Support professionals and successfully implement best practices. Those firms that are successful will enjoy top level technical and consultative support. Those firms that fail will endure disruptions to their cases and large vendor bills to correct avoidable pitfalls. Ad Litem Consulting is proud to provide law firms with assistance in best practices implementations. Once the litigation support department can pay for itself, the firm will recognize a significant savings every subsequent year.

Law Departments

Corporate clients are very savvy. No client would ever use a law firm that did not provide email and computers to the attorneys, paralegals and support staff. The questions at hand are whether they will use litigators who do not have appropriate support, and at what point will they become educated enough to know the difference. As the litigation technology costs skyrocket, they are caring a whole lot more. As big profile cases are lost due to litigation technology issues, such as identifying all potential caches of ediscovery, the clients will want to know what kind of Litigation Support Department and protocols the firm employs.