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Protecting the Confidentiality, Integrity & Availability of Sensitive Legal Proceedings

Law In Order wanted to transition its eHearings services onto the cloud.  We needed a cloud service provider that could satisfy four key criteria. Highly secure environment, enable rapid set-up with the continuity of proceedings being essential, redundancy and government experience. 

Managing Confidentiality in a Virtual Trial

Nicholas Wilson, Global eHearings Lead Consultant

Law In Order were approached by the law firms involved in a high profile case to determine whether we could assist facilitating an eTrial. The matter was proposed to be conducted either virtually, hybrid or in-person depending on the circumstances at the time.

Electronic Jury Book Solution

The legacy of the pandemic has seen significant change across all industries as everyone has adapted to the ‘new normal’. This is particularly the case in the legal profession. In a very real desire to continue supporting clients, legal teams have embraced new technology solutions at a greatly accelerated rate.

WFH and COVID Challenges: New Innovations

The effects of COVID-19 and remote working are greatly affecting how legal teams are functioning. Law In Order has been leading the way with innovations that address the challenges and difficulties this has presented for eDiscovery with the increasing emergence of new forms of data and for eHearings with courts and hearing rooms being temporarily closed.

eHearings Spotlight: How to Manage Video Conferencing Fatigue

Everyone knows that feeling. Fifteen minutes into a VIP video conference call and coffee is calling already. The meeting leader may have been great and the subject more riveting than a tradesman's toolbelt, but something just wasn't right. Welcome to "Zoom fatigue.”

Overcoming eHearings Challenges in an Uncertain Time

By Joshua Rizk, Global eHearings Lead Consultant

2020 was an uncertain and challenging time for everyone. A global pandemic brings along uncertainty and drastic changes to the way people live their day-to-day lives. The legal industry is no exception and for a system that focuses itself on procedure and timelines, COVID-19 immediately disrupted the courts and the legal practitioner’s mandate to achieve case management principles using traditional structures.

Using Technology to Deliver Just and Expeditious Resolution of Proceedings

A number of years ago, an outsourcing provider would consider a litigation matter of one hundred folders a huge job. The folders would be copied five times and sent out. Today, we see all different kinds of matters coming in to utilise ever-increasingly sophisticated discovery technology, but the hundred folder photocopy jobs are still here.

Looking Forward Into 2020: Industry Trends

The role of lawyers is set to change more rapidly in the next decade than it has in the last 100 years. Here is a summary of the biggest trends for 2020.

How eTrials are Changing Australia's Judicial System

By Elizabeth Miller, Global Head of eHearing Services

The Cowan trial of the Daniel Morcombe killer was an eTrial, one of a number that were running across 14 Queensland Courts as they began their electronic transformation process. Other states have followed suit, embracing not just electronic lodgements in the judicial system but also electronic presentation of materials and remote witness participation.