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E-Briefs: Animators at Law Produces Record E-Brief

WASHINGTON, DC — Animators at Law, a leading national provider of litigation support services, announces that it has produced what it believes to be a record-setting series of e-briefs (also called electronic briefs).  The firm reports that in its latest e-brief project, it created over 60,000 hyperlinks in over 4,000 pages of court briefs referencing 5,000 additional documents in under three weeks of work.  Animators believes this sets a record for the most complex ebrief created in the shortest amount of time for a federal court filing.

E-briefs, or electronic briefs, are electronic versions of traditional court filings (e.g. motions, briefs, complaints, etc.) where cited documents (i.e. letters, cases, exhibits, etc.) are hyperlinked from the main filed document instead of being provided in paper form.  Filed on a DVD or USB flash drive, e-briefs allow a judge and opposing counsel to review thousands of pages of information much more quickly than in paper form.  Since tens or hundreds of thousands of pages are not printed and delivered, ebriefs are considered a much more environmentally sensitive approach to large litigation filings.

Animators at Law has produced e-briefs for almost fifteen years making it one of the first firms to create an ebrief.  Because of its magnitude, this latest project required large teams working 24/7 with specialized training and software to complete the task that was ordered by a federal judge in a prominent intellectual property dispute. 

Animators was able to complete the project in no small part due to the use of ACCESS, the Animators Client Collaboration and External Sharing System.  An online litigator-friendly collaborative workspace with highly interactive features,this tool enabled Animators at Law and its client to send over 100 gigabytes of data back and forth across the country. Because it allows for multiple simultaneous uploads and downloads and offers AES-256 security, ACCESS eliminated the need to send thousands of files in hundreds of different emails or via an unsecured hard drive.

Animators at Law’s CEO, Ken Lopez, added, “Completion of this record-setting e-brief project capped off a series of impressive Animators at Law accomplishments in 2010. The launch of ACCESS has enhanced how litigation teams review draft trial exhibits and exchange documents with our on-site trial technicians.  We have continued to grow and enhance our team and, as a direct result of those upgrades, we ended the year by doubling our fourth quarter year-over-year sales.  We are very proud of our work on behalf of over 100 major law firms and corporations in 2010 and look forward to continued growth in 2011.”

About Animators at Law
Founded in 1995, attorney owned and operated Animators at Law provides litigation consulting, litigation graphics & litigation technology to major law firms and corporate legal departments worldwide. To date, Animators at Law has worked with more than 95% of the largest U.S. law firms and consulted on more than 10,000 cases with more than $2 trillion cumulatively at stake. The firm is well known for its high-profile work in the tobacco, transportation, pharmaceutical and energy industries. Statistically, half of Animators at Law's engagements are patent-related and most of those are tried in the Eastern District of Texas. 


Contact
Nina Doherty
Director, Business Development
800.337.7697 x121
doherty@animators.com
http://www.animators.com

About A2L Consulting

A2L Consulting is a leading national litigation consulting firm founded in 1995.  We have worked with all major law firms on more than 10,000 cases with trillions of dollars cumulatively at stake.  A2L Consulting offers the following litigation support services:

• Trial Consulting: mock trials, jury consulting, shadow juries, jury selection and more;
  
  
• Litigation Graphics: legal graphics and trial graphics, animation, video, foam core trial exhibits, PowerPoint, simplifying the case story and more;
   
• Trial Technology: ebriefs, hot seat operators, trial technicians, courtroom presentations and more;

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