The Applied Legal Technology practice support group specialises in providing services using a combination of innovative technology tools and sound information management expertise.
Our international team consists of lawyers, database administrators, information technology professionals, analysts, project managers and paralegals. The diversity of the team’s professional backgrounds ensures that best practice services are delivered and that innovation is applied using a broad spectrum of perspectives. The depth of experience and commitment in the Mallesons team is unequalled.
The services are used in corporate transactions, contract negotiations through to contract management and in many aspects of dispute resolution. The firm is committed to leveraging strategic economic value for our clients through this leading results driven team.
Customised technology and associated services can take many forms. For example in finance, property and corporate transactions we have specifically developed an online tool (known as MatterWeb) which is used to enable interested parties to collaborate on deals and access secured document collections on a 24x7 basis. The tool additionally has specific functionality to support online due diligence, for example access to real time reporting to analyse and review activity and interest in an asset.
The group's most established service is dispute or litigation support. For many years, the firm has embraced sophisticated tools to interrogate and analyse client and opponent information. These tools are designed to integrate efficiently with our client's physical business records, and an ever increasing volume of emails and electronic files. The group has been very active in its participation in the development of both industry and court standards in the evolving area of electronic discovery.
Mallesons has developed an innovative two-tier electronic discovery approach to provide clients with a unique offering to a complex and often expensive problem. The firm uses a number of approaches including suppression and de-duplication technologies to significantly reduce and organise data to enable a focussed review to occur on a reduced set of potentially relevant emails and documents. Our objective is to streamline electronic discovery. Mallesons is the only Australian law firm to have an installation of a highly effective online review tool which is used to accelerate the review of these documents.
The emphasis of the Applied Legal Technology group is to enable Mallesons’ lawyers to work smarter with digital tools to achieve optimum results for the firm's clients.