Assisting the Firm to develop a strategic document road map

An unusual time is not the time for business as usual

A critical moment for legal business executives

The changes in both the global economy and the legal landscape are unprecedented. What your firm does to address these changes and the resulting challenges can mean the difference between success or failure – or quite frankly sinking or swimming in the storm’s wake.

The challenge is complex, as this “Perfect Storm” has affected so many markets with such speed and ferocity that both governmental bodies and financial authorities have been left unable to adequately and confidently defend the negative impact to the global economy.

The untimely nature of today’s challenge has caused uncertainty in the legal sector. In the past the world’s largest law firms have been quite able to weather just about any downturn in economic conditions, through a well balanced global practice. However, this does not seem to be the case today.

Why? Because this particular storm has occurred just as the legal landscape was in the midst of unprecedented increases in competition, consolidation, globalisation and general restructuring.

So what to do ….shore up, scale down or aggressively challenge and change the way in which you do business?

If change is on your agenda we are perfectly positioned to assist you.

Documents are at the core of all legal matters. The way in which you manage your documents can greatly impact the profitability of your practice. Legal Document Services International (LDSI) is all about assisting firms, like yours, effectively and efficiently manage their documents, whether they are paper based, electronic, or of mixed media.

Our global reach, our vast experience in legal document management and most importantly the absolute passion and commitment of our people can prove to be a valuable partner for your practice during these particularly challenging times.

Navigating your firm through the perfect storm

Now is not the time for the indecisive or the weak hearted. A dynamic, hasty but fully measured and resourced approach can often prove to be the most beneficial solution, especially when the task at hand is so large and so critical to your business.

This is where LDSI comes in

We can help you manage all aspects of your legal document life cycle. After all, your documents are your knowledge, and your knowledge is the capital of your practice. Efficiently managing a firm’s capital has never been more important than it is today. What was right just a few months ago has probably changed dramatically in today’s economic climate and therefore a new approach to knowledge and document management may well be just what is required to assist your firm ride out, or even profit, from this particular economic downturn.

So what about your people?

LDSI admires and respects law firms’ commitment to their people. We therefore take a very balanced people led approach, when indentifying and implementing cost savings and efficiencies. We look to complement your loyal document support staff not replace them. When downsizing of staff is recommended as a result of an initiative due to technology, process innovation, outsourcing, off-shoring

or simply implementing a new unit based support model; it will be done in close partnership with your firm’s human resource department and employment professionals. This will ensure that the valuable morale and goodwill of your staff are left firmly in tact throughout this process.

Success is rarely achieved in isolation

Your support staff have years of experience working diligently for your firm. They know your firm inside and out and they are deeply ingrained in your culture. But changes have occurred so rapidly in technology, ways of working, the advent of mixed media, and management of legal matters in general, that their knowledge may well be quite limited on how to work most efficiently and effectively in today’s very challenging environment. Therefore they may not be best positioned to act in isolation during these difficult times, which puts both their jobs and the firm’s ability to succeed at risk. LDSI – can assist you in creating a cost effective, efficient, scalable solution

We look to complement the on-site knowledge of your firm’s professional and support staff with our wider global resources, experience and expertise.

Since we have offices in every region of the world economy we have a wide ranging

A time for action

knowledge of international best practice across a wide variety of legal matters and the resulting document services. We have worked with almost every top law firm including all of the UK’s Magic and Silver Circle and each firm in the AmLaw top twenty. We can share this experience, along with our technology and expertise with your on-site teams to create an ideal vessel to ride out this perfect storm.

Our Approach - Meet, Consult, Deliver, and Report

Our approach is to first meet with you to find out more about your firm. We need to know YOUR objectives, YOUR priorities, and YOUR particular style and culture before we make a single recommendation. From that meeting we will provide you a proposal to consult with you on how to achieve your objectives within your specific culture and the benefits, both operational and financial, that we can achieve together.

This of course means nothing, if we can’t deliver what we promise. We will therefore build a team to deliver our proposed solution to you on-time and to the exact specification promised.

Of course changes often occur, to both timelines and priorities, but these will be communicated to you in a timely fashion

to avoid any exposure to you or that of your Firm.

Once our service delivery model is in place we will regularly report on our progress, successes, challenges, and achievements. We will work as one with your on-site team of professional and support staff, but respect the fact that as an outside support organisation we have certain responsibilities of proactive transparency in reporting well above that of an in-house team.

Our ways of working – Global Reach with a Local Touch

We work on-site at your firm, off-site at any number of our global offices or at any location around the world utilising our mobile work units. Our state of the art collaborative work platforms enable us to work simultaneously around the world, in a forensically sound manner in full compliance with all local data legislation

Our experienced teams know law firms, know the law and know the local custom, practice, and legislation in each region in which we work. You can therefore rest assured that our quest to provide your firm cost savings and efficiencies will not put the firm’s reputation or that of your clients at risk.

A partnership withLDSI will give youa competitive advantage

Copying / Printing / Scanning

• A unit based on-site / off-site / off-shore model could save your firm six figure sums, whilst reducing your fixed human and capital exposure

• Reviewing and culling documents prior to copying and printing increases speed and productivity and can save your firm and your clients substantial production time and costs

Electronic Media

• Document Review - A collaborative technology based on-shore / off-shore designed solution can provide substantial savings, whilst vastly increasing the speed of production

• Document Hosting - Migrating to hosted systems minimises risk, keeps the firm at the forefront of innovation and can often provide substantial cost savings over internally managed systems

Litigation Support , Electronic Document Discovery (EDD), & Forensics

• Effectively and efficiently managing large scale litigation projects in a proactive planned manner can substantially enhance the bottom-line earnings of your firm, whilst improving your firms relationship with your clients

• Understanding the implications of large scale EDD projects and processing data (ensuring that it is both cost effective and complies with data protection laws), can be a critical differentiator in winning high margin, global matters for your firm.

Helping you efficiently manage your documents

New York 21 West 46th Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10036 P: +1 (212) 488 4777 F: +1 (212) 302 4607 NYinfo@ldsi.com

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