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InLine’s financial stability and reputation as a system integrator, ISP (Internet Service Provider) and CLEC can be an asset for many types of legal issues. We have found that law firms constantly need help with data related issues. Our mature support staff can help you and your clients with:
- Litigation Support Services
- Expert Witnesses
- Data Recovery for Evidence
- Database Building for Class Action Lawsuits
Meeting the challenges of litigation can stress resources of the in-house IT staff. Civil and criminal litigations increasingly involve computerized data of some kind. In many cases, data stored on various computer media and file formats play a pivotal role. Being able to effectively deal with this data, in the course of discovery, can be instrumental to success at trial or negotiation.
What Can InLine Do For You?
- Assist in the evidence gathering process
- On-site disc imaging
- Back up tape restoration and conversion to other formats
- E-mail server restoration (Exchange, Lotus, cc: Mail, Groupwise, and other)
- E-mail and document duplication and consolidation
- Output to more convenient physical and logical formats
- Keyword and name searches through e-mails, attachments, word processing documents, spread sheets, PDF files and other file formats
- Convert just about any computerized format to something accessible through your in-house resources
- Undertake data recovery in instances where such data was purposefully or inadvertently destroyed
- Consolidate the data to occupy less space and therefore make it easier to access, analyze and share, by reducing the quantity and physical size of the media in question
- Perform a variety of formats conversions on multiple levels (media, operating system, backup software/format, file formats conversion, etc.) to make the data accessible
- Perform various data massaging and analysis tasks, including sophisticated keyword searches
- Case management and tracking tools
For a consultation with InLine’s Forensic Investigation Services, please call 205-314-7705
Class Action Automation
InLine has designed the complete claimant data collection and management software for class action settlements. Class Action Automation is a web-based product that can manage settlements of any size from the initial phases of class assembly to building a customized disbursement database for settlement administration.
InLine’s team of professionals use practical business management philosophies to provide your firm with the necessary services needed to operate effectively in the world of class action litigation. Class Action Automation provides the ability to take complex class action cases into a more simplified environment that any firm can manage.
Uniform Data Collection
Ensuring that firms are collecting quality data is vital to the management and organization of class assembly. Class Action Automation was designed to reduce the exhausting task of claimant data collection and tracking. Simplifying data collection to one centralized uniform database will allow firms, attorneys, and third-party users to access and enter claimant data with ease.
The ability to streamline claimant data collection procedures will reduce the burden of managing mass amounts of claimant data. Also, reducing the inconsistencies in data collection will increase the quality of claimant data while decreasing administrative cost. With the addition of off-site storage, the risk of losing claimant data is minimal.
Accurate Data for Accurate Decisions
The collection of quality data will increase the number of claimants which could potentially lead to larger settlements. Class Action Automation’s internal programming allows firms to extract claimant-specific data that can be used to support complex issues during settlement proceedings. The ability to gauge the value of a settlement is important to ensure claimants receive adequate compensation for their injuries.
Class action settlements present complex issues that can only be solved by comprehensive analysis. Whether database queries, charts, diagrams, or simple data sets, Class Action Automation’s claimant databases will allow claimant information to be available at the touch of a button.
Attorney / Claimant Tracking
Tracking and communicating claimant data and settlement information is vital to both settlement proceedings and administration. Class Action Automation’s advanced mapping system allows users to track claimant data easily while submitting large number of claimants from multiple locations. Class Action Automation is designed to track every claimant submission providing an advanced monitoring function.
Custom-Designed Database
Class Action Automation’s custom-designed databases are tailored to meet the requirements and specifications of any class action settlement. Class Action Automation’s in-house programming team will build your settlements database, providing real time data and 24 hour technical support. As settlement evolve so will your settlement database.
Barcode Scanning
Barcode scanning technology will enable your settlement to utilize tracking features to update claimant data on a real time basis. This allows all parties to view the contents of claimant files onlinefrom multiple locations. Class Action Automation will also provide claimant form building training and formatting that will shorten the processing time of claimant correspondence. Pre-printed bar codes on claimant forms will provide tracking capabilities to minimize the cost of processing.
Payment Modeling
InLine’s team of CPAs and programmers will assist your firm in designing payment models to ensure that claimants are compensated in a fair and equitable way. Working hand-in-hand with your firm, complex analysis of claimant data will enable your firm to design the most advanced payment models. Our experience in the design and implementation of claimant payment models is key to the processing and allocation of settlement funds fairly among all claimants.
Claims Disbursements
Class Action Automation’s Accounting Manager handles all your needs to account for claimant payments and administrative disbursements. The Accounting Manager is equipped with a built-in check writer, bank reconciliation package, and check history reports. Claimant payment data is easily extracted from the database to assist with your settlement’s financial reporting requirements.
Auditing Features
Audit trails will allow your firm to easily identify who added, changed, or removed claimant data. Auditing claimant files and claimant activity has proven to take countless man-hours. Class Action Automation’s internal audit tracking system turns a time consuming task into a point-and-click tool to account for all claimant activity and status.
Data Center
InLine’s Data Center is connected to multiple Tier One Internet providers over redundant fiber, bringing you as close to the Internet backbone as possible. Our Cisco powered network actively routes your traffic and delivers packets to their destination by the fastest route, automatically bypassing congested links and broken connections. InLine’s Data Center is one of the only fiber based multi-homed networks in the area.
Voice
Local Telephone Service
The same lines, the same numbers, more features – with a lower bill.
InLine’s advanced carrier class VoIP telephone switch, combined with our reliable and redundant telecommunications infrastructure allows us to deliver high quality telecom services to businesses without the high price tag. We can even eliminate your current phone system providing all the functionality with none of the equipment maintenance or cost. Better yet, all of that functionality can be provided anywhere you have access to a broadband internet connection, providing built-in disaster recovery capabilities and remote office functionality that no phone system can match. Our customer support is personal and timely, our average hold times are less than a minute, and our average call length is less than 4 minutes.
Long Distance Service
Saving hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year on long distance service is an attractive proposition for any business. Especially when you consider that you can have these savings along with knowing that your service is delivered through one of the largest and most reliable long distance networks in the world. As with our local service, when you have a question or need help, you call us. No long hold times, just friendly and professional help when you need it.
