Litigation Consulting Services

Carolyn Young, senior managing consultant for Litigation Consulting Services – part of Thomson Reuters – spent some time in the company’s booth at ILTA ’08.

In an interview for WestBlog, Young said Litigation Consulting Services – and Baker Robbins & Company – help bridge the gap that exists between litigation support and IT. Often, Young says, those two areas within their clients’ firms are separate and “do their own thing.”

We asked her what customers and prospective clients are saying about their litigation consulting needs and wants:

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The origins of ILTA

In talking with David Baker, the chairman and co-founder of Baker Robbins & Company, we learned he played a pivotal role in getting ILTA up and running.

Baker told us that he and three others set out in 1979 to develop a way to bring some people in a few law firms together to help work out some bugs on the first time and billing management software in the legal industry. The group realized there were benefits for getting people together to share ideas on legal technology so ILTA evolved, including the conference we see today.

We also asked Baker about a session he was participating in today at the ILTA ’08 Conference titled “Future Tense – The Law Office in Three to Five Years.”

As he explained in this video interview (recorded Monday), the future for law firms has everything to do with new technology and was it may be useful and incorporated into their workflow:

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Thomson Litigation Consulting

Thomson Litigation Consulting offers a new level of expertise in litigation consulting. The company also is making its LegalTech New York debut after recently announcing new relationships and capabilities.

We caught up with John Sweeney, president, and Joe Mann, senior vice president, to hear their game plan and outlook for this new e-discovery and litigation management consulting business from Thomson: