In 1996 partners of a Virginia-based law firm, as national coordinating counsel for several Fortune 500 entities, founded TrialNet, Incorporated (now Acuity Management Solutions) to better coordinate field counsel in mass tort litigation. The partners believed Internet technology would provide the means for achieving greater efficiency and effectiveness. The vision was to create secure networks through which clients and its outside counsel could share information. Read more...
Your corporate legal or insurance claims department knows how to manage matters. You’ve been doing it for years, if not decades. Your processes are deeply ingrained, even woven into the fiber of your department’s ‘being.’ For many on your team, it would be difficult to imagine working any other way. On the flip side, you know there are always better ways of working. And, truth be told, technology has simply come too far not to at least consider managing matters differently. Tools to automate, collaborate, integrate, and facilitate the matter management process are out there.
Expert witnesses are the lynchpin of many defense cases. Your ability to find and commission the right expert can make or break your case. Unfortunately, many corporate legal and insurance claims departments accept the costs of experts as a necessary evil, and one that cannot easily be managed or reduced. However, considering that these fees are the second largest legal expense (aside from law firm fees,) it pays to reconsider this costly assumption.
