Role Of It In Legal System: Team 6 Reynold Educula

Role of IT in Legal System Team 6 05/04/09

Reynold Educula

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Introduction Law  System of Rules  Develops Civilizations

Legal System:  A legal system is the way the law is structured

and operated in a country.

Eras  Ancient Worlds  Industrial Era  Information Age (current Era)

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Technological Shift Technology can become Profitable.  Deploy well implemented case management

system  Deploy a knowledge management strategy  Go Paperless.

Firms can experience the shift when primary

file is electronic and secondary file paper.

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pfizer – Corporate case study  robust legal data warehouse for advanced analytical

reporting  Warehouse needed in legal division for deployment of

integrated set of transactional tools, matter management, patent and trademark administration and electronic billing  Each integrated system had specific reporting limitations,

transfer and retrieve data across the multiple system.

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pfizer – case study  Comprehensive data warehouse that combined each

system's daily transactional data can easily accessible, flexible and manageable structure.  Legal data warehouse build using company standard

tools and leverages a corporate shared service for hosting.  Allows IT and user to develop and run complex systems

and reports that cross source system boundaries and allows charting and drill down.

 Everyday operational support and minor enhancements

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Technology used  Oracle- star schema with a small number of fact tables linked to

various hierarchal dimension tables to support department, geography, patent family, matter etc.

 Informatica- data integration solutions ETL(extraction,

transformation and load) routines

 Business objects-all reports, end-user and ad-hoc access

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Results  more than 41,000 active SharePoint users with

1,000 top-level.  supports secure external collaboration sites

accessible to authorized non-Pfizer employees  Approximately 60% of Pfizer's collaborative

workflow needs were met out of the box with SharePoint

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Video Conferencing A set of interactive telecommunication

technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously Hardware Needed  Monitors  Camera  Microphone  High Speed Internet

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Uses of Video Conferencing in Legal System Courtrooms  Arraignment of accused to enter pleas

Lawyers  Interview potential witnesses who may be of

great distance

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Advantages of Video Conferencing in the Legal System Saves time  Allows meeting without travelling

Saves money  Reduces travelling to and from court

Adds convenience

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Disadvantages of Video Conferencing inSpeed LegalInternet System Requires High  May not be available to everybody especially in

rural areas

Clients may not have required hardware

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Conclusion IT has helped a lot in Law/Legal Departments  It saved Time  It saved Cost  It Produced more effective and efficient

workplace  It improved connections  It made Life a bit easier.

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Questions?

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