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CONTACT:
Rafik E. Abboud, Tél.:
+41 78 776 56 93, info@h7b1.com,
www.h7b1.com/press
Swiss Firm H7b1
Celebrates Two Years of European Litigation Technology
Pioneering
GENEVA, Switzerland, (30 March
2006) – H7b1, the Swiss firm innovating litigation
technology practice in Europe, announces it celebrated
two years of providing European litigation technology
services.
Litigation support technology is
a combination of software, techniques and expertise
that allows legal professionals from corporations,
law firms and courts to manage all information related
to a legal matter in specialized electronic document
databases.
Typical legal matters that benefit
from litigation support technology include due diligence,
arbitration, risk management, litigation and regulatory
compliance.
Originally born in the United States,
litigation support technology is now becoming used
by European lawyers and risk managers as it provides
a reduction in the operational costs of document management,
an increase in document review efficiencies, and,
most importantly, an increase in collaborative and
sustainable approaches in legal matters.
A Top-Tier Technology
Service Laboratory
Starting in 2004 with mobile units
able to provide on-site services throughout Europe,
H7b1 quickly became a top-tier service laboratory
for international clients, securing solutions that
include civil law interfacing, data protection support,
multilingual practice, and European confidentiality
and quality insurance components.
H7b1 has successfully served law
firm, court, individual and corporate clients from
Switzerland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, The
United Kingdom and The United States and has partnered
with industry leading software manufacturing companies
such as Dataflight Software, Inc. and IPRO Tech, Inc.
Litigation Technology Available
in Europe
"When we started in 2004, we received
some cold feedback about installing litigation support
capabilities in the heart of Europe; at that time,
this technology was still perceived as exclusively
dedicated to serving the broad discovery from the
United States," said Rafik Emmanuel Abboud, Managing
Partner H7b1.
"Two years later, with the
rise of European globalisation, transatlantic matters,
European regulation, data privacy concerns and the
global risk society in general, litigation support
technology is perceived more objectively and is not
even questioned anymore: it is being recognized as
a true business-critical technique," he added.
H7b1 successfully proved to its
customers that this technology is able to meet European
quality and functional requirements by developing
a multilingual practice, a data protection support
solution, and an enhanced electronic data conversion
process on top of standard state-of-the-art document
databasing tools.
A Worldwide Innovation
"We are proud of the accomplished
work. For European global corporations, the countdown
has now started and H7b1 is ready with fully functional
and adequate litigation technology solutions. For
global law firms, having a service laboratory in the
heart of the Civil law system is essential to the
development of a truly global litigation support practice."
Rafik Abboud added.
The Civil law system was historically
originated in continental Europe and has a worldwide
reach (South America, Japan, large parts of Africa,
most of Europe, China, and Russia) and distinguishes
itself from the Common law system (United States,
United Kingdom, Honk-Hong, Singapore, Australia, and
Canada) with differentiated rules of evidence in litigation.
About H7b1
H7b1 is a Swiss litigation support
corporation that offers technology services and training
to the legal profession. Initially founded in 2001
as a scientific services company, H7b1 was transformed
in January 2004 into the first litigation technology
service company based in continental Europe. H7b1
combines internationally recognized expertise, proven
technologies and the personal attention of a boutique
legal technology consulting firm. H7b1 is a partner
of IPRO Tech Inc (www.iprotech.com),
developers of the IPRO suite of advanced imaging products,
and Dataflight Software Inc (www.dataflight.com),
developers of the advanced litigation management database
software Concordance, Opticon and FYI Server. Additional
information regarding H7b1 is available at www.h7b1.com.
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