Lexbe.com: Litigation support services, case management, legal document scanning, e-Discovery, OCR and conversion

Link: Lexbe.com: Litigation support services, case management, legal document scanning, e-Discovery, OCR and conversion. I have been testing Lexbe, a Web based litigation management system recently. It allows the uploading of pdf files from cases, and permits the storing, indexing, searching, case calendaring, and management of every aspect of the matter. The full litigation matter and all the details can be accessed from any web browser. At the Futurelawyer's suggestion, the company has lowered the entry level price point to $29 for 25 MB of storage, which translates to approximately 500-2,500 pages. As the number of cases and documents increase, the price goes up. The major benefit is that no in-firm infrastructure is required. Just scan the documents into pdf format, and upload them. For a price, of course, the company will even do the scanning and uploading for you. If you are like Chuck Newton, and you routinely work with several other lawyers in different locations on the same matter, this management system would be ideal. All lawyers working on the case will have access to all of the case matter data, with full search capability, from any browser. Actually, this system can serve as a very nice document storage system. I have a lot of scanned legal forms that I collect in PaperPort, which I am going to upload to Lexbe. In addition to providing a safe location for them, they will be accessible to me wherever I happen to be. Very cool, and very Web 2.0.

Comments

[Carlos Leyva]

Rick,

I have been looking at the "Enterprise Wiki" space as a potential solution for a similar problem regarding "matter management." Law firms are now more than dipping their toes into the Wiki space. A global UK firm has already rolled out a Wiki based solution. The offering you described above appears to be more specifically tailored to a law practice (a good thing. The principal downside I see to a Wiki solution (in addition to the ubiquitous people resist change problem) is that you have to "roll your own" matter management system. Any thoughts? Do you see the described solution eventually replacing Amicus for matter management?

[John Hochfelder]

Are you still using LexBe and what's your opinion now?