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Leading Law Firm Fredrikson & Byron Implements Exterro Fusion for Centralized E-Discovery & Litigation Support Management
Integrated Platform Provides Litigation Support Staff, Attorneys and Paralegals With Enhanced Visibility, Transparency and Standardized Processes
| Source: Exterro
LAKE OSWEGO, OR -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 21, 2007 -- Exterro™ Inc., a leading provider of
advanced technology to the legal industry, today announced that Fredrikson
& Byron has implemented Exterro Fusion, the legal industry's first fully
integrated e-discovery and
litigation
support management platform. By leveraging Exterro Fusion, the firm's
attorneys and litigation support staff can at last manage all their
E-Discovery and Litigation Support projects from one centralized platform.
According to Chad Papenfuss, Fredrikson & Byron's Litigation Support
Administrator, "At any one time, our firm might have as many 50-75 people
collaborating on more than 300 pending cases in a variety of fields.
Exterro Fusion offers an integrated online platform to manage the entire
spectrum of discovery and litigation processes. You can
monitor progress, track costs, set and manage schedules, and evaluate
vendor performance -- all on one tool. Exterro Fusion gives us all of this
functionality 'out-of-the-box,' as well as a business process modeling
foundation we can easily build upon."
About the Implementation:
Fredrikson & Byron employs more than 200 attorneys in four offices and
services clients internationally in the areas of litigation, corporate and
intellectual property, health care, real estate, and banking.
Expanding caseloads pushed the firm to integrate a variety of media --
including paper and electronic files -- into a centralized management
system. Although Fredrikson & Byron developed a home-grown solution to
address its expanding caseload, the approach didn't meet the firm's
strategic needs. Instead it increased costs significantly, without
delivering the features and functionality the firm needed.
After reviewing project management and collaboration products that offered
point solutions, Fredrikson & Byron chose Exterro Fusion. Its automated,
independent and scalable platform helps the firm to effectively manage its
discovery
process by streamlining previously inefficient processes. Exterro
Fusion also enables them to set up repeatable processes, facilitate
internal and external collaboration, disseminate information and establish
dependable business rules and vendor pricing.
After implementation, Fredrikson & Byron experienced significant
improvements in productivity, efficiency, communication and collaboration.
Partners and lawyers can now quickly log into the system and use business intelligence
functions to spot trends and anomalies and then format reports the way they
choose. With just a few clicks, they can monitor all critical information
in real-time.
By using custom templates, attorneys and litigation support staff now
communicate with more consistency. They can also generate real-time
reports on vendor performance and costs, and create forecasts and budget
comparisons immediately.
"Before Exterro Fusion, we didn't know what we spent on our IT or discovery services, often
overrunning our support budgets by 20 to 50 percent," said Papenfuss. "With
Exterro Fusion, we finally have a standardized process for
managing information, reducing unnecessary costs and eliminating wasted
time. Because we're able to implement best practices, we anticipate
achieving ROI in less than three months."
Exterro Fusion will be demonstrated at Booth #118 at ABA Tech Show in
Chicago, IL, March 22-24, 2007. To schedule a private meeting, please
contact Exterro at (312) 402-0328. More information on the Fredrikson &
Byron case study and Exterro Fusion can be found at www.exterro.com.
About Exterro
Headquartered in Lake Oswego, Ore., Exterro is a technology company
providing innovative litigation
support lifecycle management solutions for the legal industry. It helps
legal teams control litigation and discovery processes and costs by
tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams,
service providers and experts. Exterro believes that process automation and
improvements in litigation -- especially in discovery -- can be learned
from the quality improvement successes of other industries and disciplines.
Exterro's easy to use, quick to deploy and simple to integrate management
platforms are built on a patent-pending, open architecture that fits neatly
with existing business processes and systems. A built-in management
workflow provides cost controls, delivers time savings and reduces risks
throughout the litigation support process. In addition to its headquarters,
the company has offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Dallas.
Find out more about Exterro and its technologies at www.exterro.com.
exterro and exterro Fusion are trademarks of Exterro, Inc. All other
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