Legal Advantage Sponsors American Corporate Counsel’s Value Challenge Presentation

Oct. 14, 2008 - PRLog -- September 11 - Bethesda, MD- Legal Advantage, LLC, a leading provider of intellectual property and litigation support services, today announced that it is sponsoring the American Corporate Counsel’s (ACC) Value Challenge presentation today at the Legal Marketing Association’s (LMA) month breakfast meeting at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington DC.  Susan Hackett, ACC’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President will lead and moderate this exclusive preview.  

The ACC Value challenge is an initiative by the leadership of ACC and AmLaw 250 firms to focus on providing more value and satisfaction while minimizing time spent on RFPs, managing the bill for hours already incurred that no one’s happy about.  Hackett will announce the key finding from her four recently held regional Value Challenge sessions with top corporate and law firm leaders.  

During the session, Hackett will lead a dialog between law firm market and Managing Partners to discuss how they would design a client entity that works better to move forward toward “value-driven” services, and then how to fulfill that prophesy by establishing practices that clients will flock to.

“We welcome this discussion as this is a test that many of our corporate and law firms clients face today” said Naseer Hashim, Esq. and Founder of Legal Advantage.  “As a general counsel at various entities and also as an associate at Skadden, I completely appreciate the issues that are faced by both sides.”

“Our services today are designed and delivered with value in mind. I think this discussion will encourage interactive dialogue between inventors, intellectual property attorneys and  which we believe is the key to delivering value,” said Mirza Baig, CEO of Legal Advantage.  

“We are firm believers and implementers of six sigma methodologies in our own process.”

“We are also active in harnessing our own internal knowledge through processes and knowledge management.  This combined with our focused approach on outcomes allows us to deliver the value that litigators and IP attorneys are seeking.”  Baig continued.  

“We look forward to participating in this discussion and we are planning on sharing our processes and methodologies with rest of the legal community in the coming weeks,” said Ashar Akhtar, Managing Attorney of Legal Advantage.

ABOUT LEGAL ADVANTAGE: With over seven years of solid industry experience, Legal Advantage has carved a niche for itself in the intellectual property and litigation support Services arena.  For intellectual property attorneys, patent agents and individual inventors, Legal Advantage offers services including Prior Art Searches, Patent Proofreading Services, Patent Illustration & Design Services as well as drafting of patent applications.

Legal Advantage also offers world-class services in litigation support services like Document Review, Legal Research, Trial Graphics, and Electronic Discovery. The real benefits derived from these services include reduced costs, faster project completion, and a higher quality end-product deliverable.

The firm has set the gold standard for legal support services with advanced technological capabilities, proven process methodologies, innovation, including consistently cost-effective and higher-than-industry-standard quality offerings.

Founded by seasoned intellectual property attorneys and litigators, Legal Advantage combines unparalleled dependability, accuracy, and client service - resulting in a stellar client retention rate that is among the highest in the industry.  Its currently Managed by experienced US-licensed attorneys, Legal Advantage maintains a staff over 35 permanent full-time professional legal associates with extensive experience in document review.  Every legal associate undergoes an intensive training program on American jurisprudence and is continuously evaluated for advanced comprehension, accuracy, and productivity.  With expertise in subject matter coding, substantive privilege coding, deposition summarization, and dedicated first- and second-level quality control teams, Legal Advantage provides comprehensive document review capabilities with unparalleled turnaround times.

Legal Advantage has about 150 full time employees with about 80 staff members devoted to intellectual property prior art search, patent design, and patent illustration services.  Legal Advantage plans to add an additional 100 full time legal associates by the end of the year.  

Legal Advantage is headquartered in the Washington DC suburb of Bethesda, MD and has offices in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Hyderabad, India.

For more information, please visit our website at http://legaladvantage.net

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Legal Advantage was founded by Attorneys for Attorneys with one driving goal: to provide world-class services that enable law firms and corporations to work more efficiently & effectively.