Serving the Legal Community: IKON assists law firms and corporate law departments to overcome the challenges associated with information access, control and dissemination. From capture and coding to duplication and distribution, IKON leverages the latest technology to create efficient document management solutions for our clients. In fact, IKON is the largest provider of legal document services in the United States. The Legal Document Services National Account Program from IKON is designed to help corporations identify, control and ultimately reduce legal document management costs — no matter which outside counsel is handling a case. By partnering with IKON, most corporations realize immediate savings and gain the ability to track their costs by case. Advantages of an IKON LDS Solution Valuable reporting/capture of historical data and measurement of expenses Effective cost management Consistent quality of services Streamlined administrative and operational efficiencies Standardized pricing, nationwide Fully leveraged buying power If you don't think your legal document management costs are out of line, consider that 8% of litigation costs are usually tied to document expenses*. We also encourage you to examine the following: How much does your department currently spend on legal document management costs? How does accounts payable currently track legal expenses incurred through outside counsel relationships? How much are you being charged monthly or annually by outside counsel to reproduce documents? What guidelines does outside counsel follow while making buying decisions related to your business? *Source: Mann, Frankfort, Stein & Lipp Quality Assurance When it comes to legal document production, quality is the bottom line. At IKON, we employ the most rigorous and comprehensive quality control process in the industry. The result of our efforts is a quality compliance record that averages 98.9% on every project we handle. Training is the main reason for these consistently high marks. Every employee must successfully complete an intensive training program before handling any client documents. Ongoing training is also provided in both production and litigation management techniques to ensure we maintain our exceptional quality standards. What is Coding? Working closely with Legal Organizations, we process project specific document coding to individual specification, providing our clients with instant access to documents on screen. We have skilled staff who are dedicated to legal coding, have a thorough understanding of legal terminology and documentation and are able to review documents, and locate specification requirements both efficiently and accurately. We output data compatible to all major Legal proprietary software formats This area of processing broadly covers: Objective Coding- Basic coding processing involving bibliographic coding/document indexing (type of document, author, recipient, date etc). Subjective Coding - A more comprehensive coding process in addition to the above, keywords and relevant data from the document text, flexible and specific to individual company requirements. Full Text Capture/Data Transcription - Full Key entry of all content data from hard copy or image format to provide a fully searchable database at the touch of a button.