Litigation Support Services — The Worldwide Acceptance

1. Litigation Support Services — The Worldwide Acceptance In our current growing business environment, it is becoming hard day by day and getting difficult for the companies to solely rely on their in-house staff for any legal disputes and to conduct the necessary due diligence reviews of vendors and clients. The currents state that Outsourcing and specialized consultants have become necessities. It is now likely that any company that has retained the services of a law firm will find the category i.e., Litigation support featured prominently on invoices from the law firm for any services provided. The process of providing consultation and support services to anyone including but not limited to lawyers, solicitors, or others regarding current and pending cases is defined as the Litigation Services. Litigation support activities include the documentation organization, document management, which is paper-based, but increasingly through technology such as litigation support software and equivalent systems. Documents are organized well for easy access during the review and production. Litigation support services have a wide extended range, which includes but is not limited to determining the extent of damages incurred in an accident or injury, forensic accounting services to trace out fraud, waste, abuse in financial activities, and others. These days more and more litigation support are being focused on digital formats as our world becomes more complex and information transforms from the written page to digital material maintained on a server or in a cloud and is defined by the terms called eDiscovery. It is the discovery of information in civil

2. litigation which deals with the exchange of information in electronic format, i.e., electronically stored information. Litigation support is not only limited to new technologies like digital data storage etc, but it includes several support activities including but not limited to civil litigation support, white-collar crime investigation, the defense of negligence claims, criminal case support, directors and officer’s insurance claims, crime and fidelity insurance claims, embezzlement and theft prosecution and others. With the emerging litigation explosion worldwide, the concept of Litigation Services is recognized and has its acceptance worldwide. The professional legal specialists are engaged for it. Their scope includes assisting the attorneys in a particular case, which begins with the client’s interviewing and finishes with the judgment execution. To understand the complexities involved in the management of litigation, that provides legal support etc, it becomes important to hire a professional legal support company. A few of the several benefits of having Litigation Services can be enumerated as: · It makes the attorney’s job easier and allowing him to leverage his or her expertise. · Realistic expectations for damages and/or value in the preliminary stages of litigation could be developed. · Better visibility on the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing expert’s · Focused analysis facilitates the litigation settlement faster.

3. · Allows with appropriate strategy to point out errors or logical problems in the opposing expert’s work at the deposition stage. At Proteus, our goal and focus are to anticipate the unexpected and to have eventualities and their solutions to be in place when they occur. SOURCE URL:https://proteusdiscovery.medium.com/litigation- support-services-the-worldwide-acceptance-2715cc4dc424