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Case Studies
Key Domain Areas
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Quantilus Litigation Support Services
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The Problem - Technology
- Law firms have to deal with large sets of documents – in the millions for certain
lawsuits. Managing, analyzing and retrieving useful information from this huge corpus
is a manual-intensive task.
- A large percentage of a law firm’s resources are diverted towards the task of manually
reviewing documents and emails to identify trends, discrepancies and establish relationships
(if any) between different sets of documents and/or emails.
- Documents are obtained in multiple formats – tiff files, backup tapes, hard copies,
email records, etc. This makes it very difficult to automate search and retrieval
processes.
- There is no automated system to scan through documents and emails to extract meaningful
patterns, as well as provide search and retrieval facilities.
- IT infrastructure requirements are huge and strain the small IT departments typical
for most law firms:
- IT departments struggle to support the large number of computers/servers on the
network
- There is little bandwidth for managing change and innovation
- There are resource constraints for implementing new systems or technologies
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The Problem Process
- Law firms invest huge amounts of money investing in law firm associates, who are
typically recent law school graduates or lawyers with minimal experience (1-2 years
out of law school).
- Law firms also invest huge amounts of money in IT technology, including in individualized
computers, Internet access, law research sites (such as Lexis and Westlaw), and
many other types of applications depending on area of specialization.
- What law firms have failed to do is ensure that their associates know how to access
and preserve their work product in a way that increases their associate’s productivity.
- If an associate is taught and incorporates "best practices" for document management/document
storage/document retrieval early in their legal career, the law firm will reap enormous
benefits.
- Law firms are not bridging the gap between their two investments described above
and ensuring that each associate is not wasting countless hours on maintaining paper
files (where a preferable electronic source exists) or duplicating document retention
efforts that detracts from that associate's ability to perform more valuable work
functions.
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Litigation Support - Quantilus Solution Map
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Quantilus Discovery and Forensic Solutions
- Our Discovery and Forensic teams analyze computer systems belonging to defendants
or litigants, that includes reviewing the Windows registry for suspect information,
discovering and cracking passwords, keyword searches for topics related to the crime,
and extracting e-mail and images for review.
- Analysis of electronic documents stored on/erased from multiple media formats, including
hard disk drives, floppy diskettes, zip disks and even cell phones and handheld
devices. Special tools and techniques for mainframes or other very large systems
– data may be held in RAID arrays, with individual files split and spread over 8
or more separate disks.
- Our specific offerings include:
- Electronic Document and Email Discovery
- Computer Forensics
- Database and Email Forensics
- Electronic Document Forensics
- Server and Mainframe Forensics
- Source Code Analysis
- Computer Intellectual Property
- Data Presentation
- Expert testimony on findings
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Quantilus Process Solutions
- Quantilus process consultants provide expertise in diverse areas, including:
- Eliminating non-value-added process steps
- Automating manual processes
- Improving productivity
- Creating new project implementation strategies
- Process Diagnostics
- Software implementation and training and best practices
- Quantilus process experts guide clients through methodology implementations and
act as tool mentors and trainers to smoothen the learning curve. Our qualified and
certified team of professionals will customize standard frameworks to best suit
your requirements and enable your technology group to own the process and capitalize
on their knowledge.
- Moreover, the reason that mentoring is important is our belief in the need for individualized,
hands on instruction that will make the entire exercise personal and real for the
associate. Only if it's real and personal will it be applied by the associates on
a daily and ongoing basis.
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Quantilus Technology Solutions
- Quantilus Automated Analysis tools scan through millions of documents and emails
and generate reports tailor-made to a law-firms specific requirements.
- Comparison reports identifying common threads
- Data Analysis and Correlation: Trend analysis reports identifying specific patterns
in the content
- Data Extraction: Intelligent retrieval of documents/emails that match certain patterns
- Quantilus Data conversion and OCR services convert data from multiple formats into
searchable text.
- Retrieve data using automated programs or manual scanning into a digital format
– from Backup Tapes and hard copies
- Automated OCR procedures to extract searchable text
- Rigorous Quality Assurance processes to ensure data integrity
- Quantilus Content Management services help clients implement and support Content
Management systems and processes
- Documentum implementation
- Content modeling and taxonomy systems
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Quantilus IT Support Solutions
- IT Strategy
- Strategic Implementation Roadmap: Charting system implementation path for strategic
benefits
- Application audit and portfolio: Complete listings and specs for all apps running
in company
- Network and Infrastructure support
- Network setup and maintenance: Internal network setup, Internet setup, etc.
- Server setup and maintenance: Email server setup/migration, application server deployment
and maintenance
- Application development and support
- Custom development and maintenance of line-of-business applications
- Network Security solutions
- Design and implementation of firewalls and security protocols to preserve integrity
of legal documents
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