St. Louis Cathedral
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Our Technology
To differentiate ourselves from the other boutique litigation firms, our lawyers and staff must have the tools and resources available to respond effectively and immediately. During the past several years, Babcock Law Firm has invested nearly one-hundred thousand dollars on its technology infrastructure and has developed a long term plan to continue this strategic investment. High-speed local and wide-area networks, high-end computers and Blackberry® handhelds, integrated billing and case management software platforms, several external web sites, as well as centralized and remote terminal servers are all in-place to make integrated legal services available on a 24/7, world-wide basis. Equally important, our lawyers and support staff are continually developing innovative ways to use our technology to enhance our practice and client service and we bring in an outside consultant for one week out of every year to train and tweak the firm’s employees and systems.
Knowledge management is at the heart of the firm’s current technology initiatives. The firm is currently upgrading its internal search capabilities to give each professional the tools they need to locate the precise agreement, pleading or other document necessary to effectively use the firm’s resources.
We use technology to work and communicate with our clients around the world. In addition to robust voice and computer networks, we have a state-of-the-art video-conferencing system complete with a wall-mounted 42” plasma screen, and electronic fax delivery to increase our lines of communications. Moreover, each of our attorneys can access all of our firm information through the Internet.
In the Summer of 2006, the firm installed a networked litigation management software system to support the hundreds of litigation tasks the firm accomplishes every day, as well as manage the computerized database of firm documents, library resources and business intelligence.
In the Spring of 2007, the firm installed a suite of networked evidence and trial preparation software by LexisNexis. CaseMap, TimeMap, TextMap, and NoteMap are all tools included in the suite of software that allows our people to organize complex, multi-party litigation and the thousands of documents that we routinely have to organize and have available on a moments notice.
Distributing documents for complex litigation is time-consuming and inefficient. Therefore, the firm has implemented paperless litigation management protocols to store documents in one database that is web accessible by all parties. This technology reduces the need to exchange and maintain Federal Express® packages, E-mail attachments, faxes and other documents. In other words, it saves us time and our clients money. The efficiencies realized from automating a case and working on-line apply not only to large cases, but to small and medium size cases as well. Efficiencies range from reducing photocopy costs to creating electronic witness and issue binders and increasing the portability of large volumes of documents.
We are also on the cutting edge of electronic billing. In the legal industry, this has developed largely as a result of the demand by insurance companies and corporations for a more efficient method of processing the many legal invoices that they receive each month. We offer our clients these electronic billing options: LEDES (Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard), Legalgard®, Examen®, PeerPoint/PWC®, NationWide®, and Bristol-Myers Squibb® formats. If a particular client has a billing format that they prefer, we are happy to adapt to it.
