eTrial Communications, located in Denver, Colorado, is a legal communications company dedicated to assisting law firms in swift and logical presentations for their litigations. David Vanderport, the founder, president and senior consultant started eTrial Communications in order to support trial technologies. Specifically, eTrial Communications specializes in litigation consulting, visual strategy development, technology support and consulting and the overall appearance of legal presentations. The client wanted to create a website that could generate legal briefs, and make them annotatable (i.e. create links, highlight, zoom, etc). The solution simplifies the brief-creation process for clients, and provides them with a centralized, web-based location to modify documents. Previously, eTrial Communications had been using Adobe® Acrobat® for all of its editing, but found it to be not only expensive, but also limited in the scope needed.
After being told that the project was impossible, eTrial Communications came to Amadeus Consulting hoping to hear that we could provide the solution. Right in line with our credo "Everything is Possible," we took the project and ultimately created a successful solution.
This project proved to be a challenge for Amadeus Consulting, as nothing like this exists in the market. After conducting much research to address a strategy for the project, the developers at Amadeus Consulting leveraged many 3rd party tools and the Microsoft .NET platform to create Brief-LynxTM for eTrial Communications.S3 (Simple Storage Service) from Amazon proved to be an important tool in this project as it provides high capacity storage at a low cost, a great option for large legal briefs. Brief-LynxTM broadens the scope needed to give eTrial employees or their clients the ability to annotate and package large legal briefs.
Brief-LynxTM grants users the capacity to edit, create links, highlight and zoom in specific sections of text. It reduces the amount of links users need to get where they need, saving time and money. The website itself is a centralized location, easier to access and contributes to a more collaborative process for annotation of briefs.
Brief-LynxTM was successfully deployed in October of 2008.
eTrial was thrilled with the result of Brief Lynx and has since asked Amadeus Consulting to make enhancements to the Brief-LynxTM project. Amadeus Consulting looks forward to a continuing successful relationship with eTrial Communications.