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Latest News On Legal Case Management and Collaboration Systems and Technologies From Xerdict
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February 2008.
Xerdict creates new "Brief Bank" portal product.
Xerdict has again expanded the general capabilities of its' collaboration software suite, developing a product to assist law firm practice groups in the collection, sharing and management of best practice Brief Banks. This tool allows both full text searching as well as indexed searching, thus allowing attorneys to more easily store, track, access and reuse work product considered to be best-in-breed within their law firm.
December 2007.
Xerdict collaboration technology powers "Climate Change Portal".
The Oracle-based Xerdict collaboration technology served as a backbone for the recently deployed Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP Climate Change Portal, a site providing timely and useful information on happenings in this emerging and increasingly important field to the legal community.
November 2007.
Xerdict deploys innovative "File Room" portals.
Xerdict has expanded the general capabilities of its' litigation support and business development portals by creating an "Electronic File Room". These "file rooms" allow for the posting, coding and categorization of litigation and other documents for electronic storage and easy search and retreival. The many benefits of this technology include the fact that documents can be tracked and retrieved far more productively as well as the fact that a law firm can reduce the amount of physical space which is required in order to store large quantities of paper within the four walls of their office space.
October 2007.
Xerdict constructs additional law firm portals.
Xerdict has expanded the scope of their busienss development portal unit by deploying legal content for additional emerging areas of law and legal practice.
May 2007.
Xerdict to hold educational webinar with ILTA on May 2, 2007.
The informational session discusses and shows how a hosted, Web-based collaboration system can be used to build a repository of information using technologies to support marketing efforts and demonstrate experience in virtually any area of law (IP, insurance, products liability, etc.). This application of collaboration technology is somewhat different than the "traditional" or "typical" use of collaboration technologies in the litigation support theater which provide services like calendaring, document management or case tracking/management.
February 2007.
Xerdict recently developed a new reporting capability within the CaseEnsemble Collaboration System for use in all collaboration systems.
The new reporting capability allows CaseEnsemble to produce any report generated by the system " Query Builder" in a configurable PDF format. To help properly format the reports, CaseEnsemble allows the system users and clients to define the report characteristics such as the report font, font size, and page size and orientation in the PDF file (prior to printing/saving/emailing the PDF file). This new feature, which adds to the existing CaseEnsemble functionality allowing clients to either view the report on the screen or export report contents to an Excel file, greatly improves CaseEnsemble clients's ability to save Case Management and other types of system reports in a useful and attractive format appropriate for printing or emailing to clients. This capability is particularily useful for those case management applications that require periodic reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly) to be sent to clients.
December 2006.
Xerdict Group Assists in Construction of e-Discovery Portal.
The new Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP e-Discovery Portal, which was constructed using Sedgwick's internal Xerdict web-based collaboration technology, was recently deployed. The portal is a repository of essential forms, cases, statutes, regulations, rules and articles, providing Sedgwick attorneys and the firm's clients with direct access to practical and relevant information needed at the onset of litigation.
September 2006.
Xerdict Group Announces Creation of Law Firm Business Development Portal Product.
Xerdict's law firm collaboration toolset was recently expanded to provide law firms with the capability to create business development websites. This offering is designed to allow law firm practice groups to post articles of interest, an organized set of current rules and statutes related to the practice of law, allow clients to leverage a private bulletin board to submit questions and comments about this practice of law, post salient recent cases and commentary on these cases, and to post helpful sets of forms and documents related to a practice of law. This new and expanded set of capabilties are specifically designed with the needs of law firms in mind, and are available along with the existing suite of other Xerdict products (CaseEnsemble, SMCEnsemble and IT consulting services).
July 2006.
Xerdict Group Announces Expanded ProjectEnsemble product.
ProjectEnsemble, Xerdict's law firm collaboration tool, was recently upgraded to provide law firms with the capability to track and manage a wide variety of administrative projects in areas such as marketing, information management, pro bono work, executive management and community affairs. This new and exapnded version of ProjectEnsemble, specifically designed with the needs of law firms in mind, is available along with the existing suite of other Xerdict products (CaseEnsemble, SMCEnsemble and IT consulting services).
April 2006.
The Xerdict Group LLC and Method360, Inc. announced today a strategic alliance that brings together Xerdict’s web based collaboration technology and professional services with Method360’s enterprise project management and IT management services.
The Xerdict Group LLC and Method360, Inc. announced today a strategic alliance that brings together Xerdict’s web based collaboration technology and professional services with Method360’s enterprise project management and IT management services.
The alliance serves several mutually beneficial strategic purposes. One such benefit is that this partnership will help to further broaden Method360's already impressive and broad set of technology consulting services into the additional vertical markets of hosted collaboration software products, focusing on the legal sector in areas such as litigation support, document management and law firm marketing. Furthermore, the union of Method360 and Xerdict will help provide additional delivery mechanisms into the marketplace for Xerdict's leading legal collaboration product, CaseEnsembleTM. And most importantly, for our present and future clients, this new alliance positions both Xerdict and Method360 to expand and grow the set and range of high quality services and products they provide.
"Developing an strong relationship with an elite consulting company such as Method360 illustrates the importance Xerdict places in identifying and partnering with best-in-breed firms as integartion partners for our hosted collaboration products" noted Kenneth Jones, Chief Information Officer of the Xerdict Group LLC. Furthermore, comments Jonathan Wong, a Managing Director at Method360, "The Xerdict-Method360 alliance will expand an established client base to provide legal and non-legal industry clients with a comprehensive range of technology consulting ."
Both Method360 and Xerdict are available to discuss collaboration or other technology consulting needs with current or prospective clients. Free demonstrations of the powerful and flexible are also available upon request.
About Method360
Method360, Inc. has provided high-end consulting services including enterprise technology project management, data architecture, business workflow, SAP integration and IT management services since 1997. Client industries include legal, financial, healthcare/pharmaceutical, telecommunications, utilities, retail and insurance.
Contact: Jonathan K. Wong, Managing Director
Phone: Electronic Mail : jwong@method360.com. (www.method360.com)
About Xerdict
Xerdict Group LLC is a subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, one of America’s preeminent litigation and trial law firms. As part of Sedgwick’s focus on efficiency, productivity, and client service, Xerdict Group was founded in 2004 to offer outstanding litigation support technology including legal case management and practice management collaboration software products such as CaseEnsemble
, ClientEnsemble and ProjectEnsemble and other technology-based litigation support services.
Contact : Kenneth Jones, Chief Operating Officer
Phone: 973-286-4350
Electronic Mail: kenneth.jones@xerdict.com. (www.xerdict.com)
February 2006.
Xerdict Group COO Kenneth Jones to speak at Legal Marketing Association Meeting.
Mr. Jones is one of two speakers on the topic "Using Portal and Blog Technologies to Increase a Law Firm's Market Exposure." The seminar will focus on how portal and blog technologies can be applied within the legal marketing discipline to help market legal services and broaden the awareness of a law firm's attorneys and practice area capabilities.
February 2006.
Xerdict Group announces the completion of the eDiscovery Counsel Blog website.
Xerdict Group announces the completion of the
eDiscovery Counsel Blog, a forum for sharing information and news of note relating to the legal aspects of electronic data disclosure and discovery, electronic document management, data privacy, electronic medical systems, identify theft, HIPAA, OCHIT and other regulatory privacy and data management issues.
January 2006.
Xerdict Group announces expansion of the CaseEnsembleTM Asbestos Litigation Case Management module.
CaseEnsembleTM, Xerdict's market leading legal extranet system, now offers an even more robust asbestos system tracking module,
allowing clients to track and manage case management data points, settlement and claim information, all key dates associated with a case,
a plethora of plaintiff data points, and a variety of custom reports, each of which can be run by end users
and exported to various formats such as Microsoft Excel. For a demonstration of this most recent module and addition to CaseEnsembleTM, contract Xerdict at info@xerdict.com.
December 2005.
Xerdict Group announces the completion of the CaseEnsembleTM Query and Reporting module.
CaseEnsembleTM, Xerdict's market leading legal extranet system, now offers clients even more flexibility and creativity in the development and creation of reports by end users of CaseEnsembleTM. The CaseEnsemble
Query and Reporting allows end users to develop their reports and queries using a friendly user interface to develop sophisticated
SQL based queries including field selection, sorting, filtering, prompting, and many other powerful and useful features. All reports developed in the Query and Reporting module
can be selectively deployed to specific users, ensuring data security. Report output can be displayed within the application or can be easily
exported to applications such as Microsoft Excel. For a demonstration of this most recent module and addition to CaseEnsemble, contract Xerdict at info@xerdict.com.
December 2005.
Xerdict Group's Legal Extranet Blog featured in a new Technolawyer ebook publication.
The Xerdict Group Blog, The Legal Extranet Blog, is featured in the new Technolawyer publication, BlawgWorld 2006: Capital of Big Ideas. This ebook is designed to take the reader on a journey through 51 of the most influential blawgs. For more information this ebook, please visit the website http://www.blawgworld.com.
October 2005.
Xerdict Group announces the completion of the Appellate Strategist Blog.
Xerdict Group announces the completion of the Appellate Strategist Blog (http://www.appellatestrategist.com), an Informational site sponsored by Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP and authored Christina Imre to share knowledge and emerging information of note related to Appellate Law and Punitive Damages.
September 2005.
Xerdict Group announces availability of ProjectEnsemble™
workflow management module.
The technical subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, the Xerdict Group LLC, announced a new ProjectEnsemble feature which allows clients to generate and manage workflow requests, moving them through various states of approval and processing, within their internet-based project management system, ProjectEnsemble. This allows service organizations, and their clients, to safely and securely collaborate on change requests in a productive and convenient manner.
May 2005.
Xerdict Group announces availability of CaseEnsemble™
e-discovery module.
The technical subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, the Xerdict Group LLC, announced a new CaseEnsemble feature which allows clients to upload several gibabytes of images, exhibits and files as part of a discovery process to allow document coding teams located in multiple locations to access an internet-based document repository and code artifacts as part of the litigation discovery process.
April 2005.
Xerdict Group announces availability of CaseEnsemble™
legal extranet Outlook calendar and task import/integration.
The technical subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, the Xerdict Group LLC, announced a new CaseEnsemble feature which allows clients to import the contents of an Microsoft Outlook task or calendar listing into the CaseEnsmeble System. This allows clients to continue to maintain their own personal calendar and task list within Outlook while also providing them the opportunity to share selected items with other members of a case management team using the legal extranet.
March 2005.
Xerdict Group creates search engine effectiveness (SEO) service.
The technical subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, the Xerdict Group LLC, announced a new services aimed at helping any business improve the placement of their public website in search engine results. For more information on this service, please call Kenneth Jones at the Xerdict Group offices in Newark, New Jersey.
February 2005.
Xerdict Group creates trial support animation service.
The technical subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, the Xerdict Group LLC, announced new trial support services, namely the creating custom animations such as accident recreations in support of attorneys in litigation. Examples of these animation services are available on the Xerdict Services webpage. To view an example of an animation of a vehicle crash for use in a courtroom setting, please
click here. To view an example of an crime recreation, please
click here.
January 2005.
Xerdict Group publishes law firm portal white paper in the January 2005 issue of Peer to Peer magazine.
The technical subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran
& Arnold LLP, the Xerdict Group LLC, provided a whitepaper to the International Legal Technology Association's (ITLF) Peer To Peer magazine. This whitepaper discusses the business benefits and ROI of law firm portals to assist in client development efforts as well as outlining some of the technical and project management steps necessary for law firms to build client portals.
November 2004.
Xerdict Group profiled in the November 2004 issue
of Law Technology News.
The technical subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran
& Arnold LLP, the Xerdict Group LLC, was profiled in an article in
the November issue of Law Technology News entitled "Internet Frontiers: Pushing the Envelope".
The article discusses the business drivers leading Sedgwick to create Xerdict, along with and action steps
a law firm must take to create a technology-based services unit. The article also highlights the key services,
products and business value Xerdict provides to Sedgwick and its' external client base.
November 2004.
Xerdict Group to host LawNet chapter meeting discussing collaboration
technology in New York City.
Xerdict Group, a subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran
& Arnold LLP, hosted the New York LawNet chapter meeting on November 10, 2004. The meeting discussed strategies and methods of improving and enhancing customer
relationships using internet-based technologies and collaboration systems such as litigation extranets, client support portals and other web publishing technologies.
September 2004.
Xerdict Group announces expanded case management
task tracking functionality.
Xerdict Group announces expanded case management
task tracking functionality which allows case management workteams to assign priorities to litigation tasks.
This new feature also allows attorneys and their client to sort and report on litigation tasks by priority.
This capability is in addition to the current rich set of available task reports including lists of all
tasks, "my tasks", upcoming tasks and the CaseEnsemble bolt-on email notification capability to remind
individuals about incomplete or approaching tasks.
September 2004.
Xerdict Group announces launch of their
legal extranet and legal technology educational site.
Xerdict Group announces launch of the Xerdict
legal extranet and legal technology educational site to allow clients and interested parties to
learn more about the field of legal technology and litigation case management. This educational site is comprised of a combination
of frequently updated blog sites and static HTML pages containing basic information about legal
technology and legal extranet case management systems.
August 2004.
Xerdict Group announces availability
of CaseEnsemble™ legal extranet lead and sub plaintiff tracking.
Xerdict Group announces availability
of CaseEnsemble™ legal extranet lead and sub-plaintiff tracking to allow clients to track
an unlimited amount of information about the sub plaintiffs on a matter. This includes
profile information describing a plaintiff, settlement information related to a sub-plaintiff
matter, court information, or specific comments and notes relating to each sub-plaintiff matter.
These new features extend and enhance CaseEnsemble™'s ability to track complex multiple-plainitff
product liability and general liability matters.
August 2004.
Xerdict Group announces availability
of ClientEnsemble law firm portal..
Xerdict Group
announces the availability of the new ClientEnsemble™ law firm portal system
to allow law firm to share information such as invoices, marketing information,
lists of upcoming events and contact lists with their clients. ClientEnsemble™ helps
law firms improve their cashflow by making invoices images available electtonically, and
also helps better leverage existing marketing documents which helps to grow and
expand existing relationships between law firms and their clients.
ClientEnsemble™ can be bundled with the CaseEnsemble™ system to allow law firms
and their clients to securely and productively post and share both administrative and case
related data and documents.
August 2004.
Xerdict Group
announces availability of CaseEnsemble™ legal extranet medical device case management litigation
functionality.
Xerdict Group
announces the availability of a new CaseEnsemble™ legal extranet module
to allow corporate law departments to track and manage costs
associated with medical device legal matters. This module provides the
ability to track dates, hospital information, plaintiff data, and settlement/damages
data associated with an implant matter. This module is bundled with the
standard CaseEnsemble™ litigation module, and it further extends and
enhances the CaseEnsemble system collaboration capabilities
which allow Xerdict Group clients to securely and productively
post and share case management data amongst working teams.
August 2004.
Xerdict Group
announces availability of new CaseEnsemble™ legal extranet case management cost collection
and budgeting functionality.
Xerdict Group
announces the availability of a new CaseEnsemble™ module
to allow corporate law departments to track and manage costs
associated with legal matters. This module provides the
ability to track budgeted and actual costs, by time period and
for the life of the case. This module is bundled with a
litigation cost management report which presents collected data
in a clear, concise manner. This module further extends and
enhances the CaseEnsemble system collaboration capabilities
which allow Xerdict Group clients to securely and productively
post and share case management data amongst working teams.
August 2004.
Xerdict Group
announces availability of CaseEnsemble™ legal extranet outside counsel
management module.
Xerdict Group
announces the availability of a new CaseEnsemble™ module
to allow corporate law departments to track and manage their
outside counsel. This module allows corporate law departments
to track the set of law firms representing their company, as
well as the list of approved timekeepers and timekeeper rates
for each firm. This module, coupled with the "Documents" area
of CaseEnsemble which is used to post documents such as an
outside counsel policy manual and litigation management
module, provides a toolset to corporate law departments
to automate and improve the manner in which they work with and
manage their outside counsel.
May 2004.
Xerdict Group announces availability of
legal library functionality.
Xerdict Group announces the
availability of a new CaseEnsemble™ module to collect and
publish legal research associated with lawsuits and claims.
These modules create a document repository designed to store and
present legal attorney work product, as well as articles and
references in the public domain, to law firm clients. These
modules further extend and enhance the CaseEnsemble system
collaboration capabilities which allow Xerdict Group clients to
securely and productively post and share documents for review,
revision and approval.
April 2004. Xerdict Group announces the availability of their
flagship ProjectEnsemble™ product.
The ProjectEnsemble
system is an innovative, web-based extranet collaboration tool
designed for all types of project management applications.
Powered by Xerdict™
technologies, the system allows project
teams from different organizations and remote offices to share a
single, secure, online area to track project information,
maintain project calendars, and to collaborate on documents and
project plans. With its off-the-shelf, instantly customizable
configurations, the ProjectEnsemble system can facilitate
communication and efficiency for even the most complex projects
within hours.
April 2004. Xerdict
Group announces additional legal practice areas to be serviced
by their flagship CaseEnsemble™ legal extranet product.
Xerdict Group
announces the availability of case management modules targeted to service the
surety legal practice area. These legal case management modules, containing fields and
data specific to this area of law, augment the many other
practice areas in the areas of litigation, commercial, labor and
intellectual property law already supported by the CaseEnsemble
system. The CaseEnsemble system is an innovative, web-based
extranet collaboration litigation case management tool designed for legal matter
management.
April 2004.
Xerdict
Group announces the availability of its flagship product, the
CaseEnsemble™ system.
The CaseEnsemble
system is an innovative, web-based extranet collaboration tool
designed for legal matter management. Powered by Xerdict™
technologies, the system allows legal teams from different
organizations and remote offices to share a single, secure,
online area to track case information, maintain a master
calendar, collaborate on documents and post work product. With
its off-the-shelf, instantly customizable configurations, the
CaseEnsemble system can harmonize even the most dissonant
complex litigation matters within hours.
About Xerdict Group:
Xerdict Group LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sedgwick,
Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, one of America’s prominent
litigation and trial law firms. Xerdict Group provides
technology based systems and services to clients of Sedgwick,
Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP as well as to direct clients of
Xerdict technologies. Founded in 2004, the company’s mission is
to help clients and their business partners securely and
efficiently share litigation case management data and other types of legal technology information, enabling their litigation and legal teams to
work in a close and effective manner
Contact:
Kenneth
Jones
Xerdict Group LLC
973-286-4350
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Each of the litigation support and practice management software products we offer are
"hosted" products, meaning we host the systems
and data in our secure data center located in California. This structure allows our clients to minimize startup efforts and cost
when they need to quickly establish a common
legal extranet working space to share, develop and process
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