IT/IS,
Inc., and through its predecessors, successors and affiliated companies
has been successfully innovating and providing automated support for the
litigator for almost two decades. Some notable milestones we've
achieved are as follows:
- Facilitated the first paperless court case in Texas
- Designed, tested and used image indexing for court cases
Adapted the personal computer to litigation support
First to successfully integrate imaging technology and optical disk storage with database software on a case which exceeded four million pages - in 1989
Provided data base creation for the "Howard Hughes" estate dispute involving the states of Texas and California - in 1987
In 1987 a complete document management software package was released under the name Litidex™
The idea of automated litigation support was actually born in a
courtroom almost two decades ago. Entrepreneur Hunter M. A. Carr may
have been a risk taker but sitting a court room on the wrong side of a
250,000 to 1 odds case was one risk he simply was not willing to take.
The company he was suing had eight attorneys who had produced 50,000 pages
of documents that Mr. Carr's attorney had not seen. To make matters
worse, when Mr. Carr needed one paragraph of one letter to prove a witness
was giving false testimony, no one could find it. So his lawyer had
photocopies of the 50,000 pages put in various groupings -- alphabetical,
chronological and just about any other way he thought might help. By
then, however, the paper chase had turned the unwieldy mass into 250,000
pages, and it still was taking hours to find information. Given
those crushing numbers, Mr. Carr thought of an idea to find the facts
fast. He realized if he could load the data into a personal
computer, the computer could be used in court as an electronic paralegal.
This is exactly what he and his more computer-literate friends helped his
attorney do...and they won the case. This was the genesis of IT/IS,
Inc.
And now this same power can be put to use for you!