E-BMC Predicts Sweeping Changes in the Legal Profession from the E-Business Revolution

E-BMC is the leader in providing e-business enablement services to those companies that recognize the inevitable dominance of IT over traditional business processes. The Gartner Group predicts that those who become e-business enabled will achieve extraordinary profits while those that ignore the e-business revolution will not survive.

Vernon, NJ (PRWEB) August 27, 2003 --- E-BMC is the leader in providing e-business enablement services to those companies that recognize the inevitable dominance of IT over traditional business processes. The Gartner Group predicts that those who become e-business enabled will achieve extraordinary profits while those that ignore the e-business revolution will not survive. However the impacts of e-business technology are not limited to internal business performance improvements.

Technology is changing the way services are provided in many industries. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the legal industry where data/digital forensics are revolutionizing the way law is practiced and legal services are delivered to clients.

For years the legal profession has been plagued by clogged dockets, backlogged cases, time consuming frivolous law suits, and expensive defense against fraud and self serving litigation. However efforts to reform the system have had little success until now. E-BMC predicts that is about to change.

Dr. John T. Whiting, the Managing Director of Vernon, NJ based E-BMC, identifies two advances that will cause this change. First, law firms are beginning to recognize the inevitability of e-business technology as the vehicle that can yield dramatic improvements in internal operating efficiency, case preparation and management and performance for law firms" notes Dr. Whiting.

E-business is becoming the way of conducting the affairs of the legal industry across the entire legal system because it can be done quicker, more efficiently, more accurately and more cost effectively than by using the traditional legal operating systems." Case research, preparation, management and adjudication will all be digitally based" Dr. Whiting predicts. Some Courts are already requiring digital filings, the conferencing of cases via the Internet and the exchange of legal documents via secure networks." The resulting gains in operating efficiency and performance for both law firms and the Court system will be extraordinary" Dr. Whiting predicts.

Dr. Whiting also notes that the legal industry is also discovering that technology can have a major impact on the way cases are presented and decided." The emerging science of digital forensics" is having as much an impact on the way the legal industry pursues legal actions as e-business is having on the operation of the legal system" Dr. Whiting notes.

What is digital forensics?" Simply stated, all electronic communications leave a latent paper trail" or record of the communication history. The ability to recover this communication history from computer equipment as evidence in a legal action is called digital forensics. When collected in accordance with standard procedures that guarantee the reliability and integrity of the digital information as evidence, a case can be made almost indefensible or unchallengeable. Indeed, unlike testimony from an eye witness or circumstantial evidence that suggests a partys guilt or innocence, digital forensic evidence provides a irrefutable record of what a person did in the form of the electronic communication regarding a legally contested matter.

As a consequence, the law firm that has the ability to collect and present digital forensic evidence in a case has a significantly greater chance of prevailing in the action than does the law firm that lacks this ability. Indeed, if a party in a legal action learns that the opposition has valid and reliable forensic evidence that refutes the allegations being made by the opposing party it is increasingly in the best interest of the law firm to try to settle the case out of court rather than face the prospect of loosing the case.

Dr. Whiting predicts that all law firms will eventually learn to gather and include digital forensic evidence in the preparation of their legal strategy to support an action or defend a client who is being sued. Law firms will be able to determine the risk of loss or potential for winning a case by knowing if the action includes digital forensic evidence." This will make it possible for them to make better decisions concerning which cases to accept and which cases to avoid becoming involved with do to either the presence or absence of digital forensic evidence" predicts Dr. Whiting.

It is also predictable that the incidence of frivolous law suits will decline as it becomes common knowledge that digital forensic evidence can be introduced to demonstrate that such cases lack merit" says Dr. Whiting. Insurance fraud cases, unfounded civil rights allegations, malpractice cases, white color crime and other actions that presently have great impact on the cost of service to citizens and tax payers may be dramatically reduced as a result of law firms becoming skilled in the collection and presentation of digital forensic evidence" Dr. Whiting optimistically predicts.

In the final analysis e-business will bring significant change to the way law firms conduct their business and result in major reform to the legal system, a positive advance for citizens and the legal profession alike.

To learn more about E-BMC visit the web site http://www.e-businessmanagement.com or contact Dr. Whiting at 973-764-0375.

Contact: Dr. John T. Whiting, Managing Director/E-BMC
Contact Telephone: 973-764-0375
Contact E-Mail: john.whiting@e-businessmanagement.com