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LITIGATION AND PRACTICE SUPPORT 6 WWW.ILTANET.ORG | ILTA WHITE PAPER Award-Winning Insight on Innovation and the Evolving Role of LPS Professionals Litigation support professionals need multidisciplinary skills, including technology, project management, legal and commercial expertise. technologies to defensibly cull irrelevant documents, find more relevant documents quicker and prioritize documents for review. Our partners have found these technologies useful for case strategy where we've been able to find key evidence up front, which has enabled them to negotiate with the other side or with a regulator. A very early game-changer was imaging technology that allowed paper to be converted and used electronically, anytime and anywhere. Lawyers no longer needed to be located physically where the documents were. With optical character recognition (OCR) technology, for the first time lawyers could search across large volumes of documents. These technologies moved litigators from hard-copy data rooms to the online world. In what way is the role of a litigation support professional changing, and how do you deal with those changes? The commercial drivers in litigation have changed significantly with the explosion of big data coupled with client demand for improved efficiency. Technology will drive significant change in the legal profession, just as it is doing in most other industries. The changing commercial landscape means the litigation support professionals' role is evolving. There is much greater emphasis on risk, and commercial consequences rest on the advice of these professionals, so they must be commercially savvy and good negotiators. Litigation support professionals also must be experts at a much broader range of technologies. Fieen years ago, these professionals had to be experts at converting paper to an electronic form as sources for evidence. Now, potentially discoverable data come in a wide range of electronic forms — from email messages and electronic documents to text messages, voicemail and social media like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twier. The role of these professionals is growing to be much broader than just litigation. At Allens, we deliver services for due diligence and other client-driven solutions that artificial intelligence (AI) applications and new resourcing models are enabling. Today's litigation support professionals need multidisciplinary skills, including technology, project management, legal and commercial expertise.

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