Access Litigation Support Services, Washington, D.C.

Deadlines are sacred in the legal support industry. ALSS is tasked by their customers with fulfilling large data discovery tasks with very short turn around times. The process of document discovery under these conditions would require an intelligent application capable of converting documents to TIFF pages for storage and easy access from within numerous applications. The system must be capable or reading, categorizing and printing documents of many different file types.

With a desire to fulfill their motto and provide consistent quality on time, Access Litigation Support Services (ALSS) contracted the Data Research Group development team to create a completely customized document discovery system—EZ ACCESS™. The solution produced is sleek and very extensible. This system out performs their closest competitor by over 5 times. The solution is also very flexible, allowing their customers to define the parameters that guide the discovery process. The solution utilizes a client/server based application written in .NET, using SQL Server as the backend. It serves as a document repository for a multitude of reporting applications both client server and web based.

Initial paradigm: Client, 3^rd Party COTS
Solution paradigm: Web application, ASP.NET / SQL Server 2000

Once files are indexed, extracted and converted to TIF images, this Analysis module allows over thirty users on multiple workstations to Bates Number, Export, and Produce data sets to the client law firm.