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Services for Law Departments

Helping to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of legal work.

Litigation Document Review

Elevate’s document review teams are highly process-driven experts in project management, with extensive experience working with corporate legal teams and law firms across a wide variety of matters. The distinctiveness of every lawsuit requires different strategies; accordingly, the Elevate project management team works collaboratively with our clients to tailor scope, review strategies, workflows, and resource estimates for each project.

We systematize our processes to ensure high quality, efficiency, predictability and cost control, and we can provide support both onshore and offshore. Our review and quality control processes are designed for defensibility, and we collaborate with outside counsel to ensure their ethical obligations are met. We thoroughly track each reviewer’s performance across projects and staff future projects with an optimal mix of our highest performing reviewers. Our Six Sigma approach to quality ensures continuous improvement of our people and processes, delivering excellence and dependability for our clients.

Elevate offers both linear and non-linear review methodologies, and we are flexible as to which review tool we use. To best suit the needs of every project, Elevate offers consulting on the most effective approach to document review, including considerations around the use of technology assisted review. To enable our clients to better plan and predict costs, we offer alternative fee arrangements that are transparent and flexible, and we also offer pricing per unit (document, page, or size), per hour, and per project.

With Elevate Document Review, GCs and outside counsel alike can depend on efficient, high quality results and predictable cost control.

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Class action suits
Regulatory investigation
Breach of contract
Patent infringement
Environmental litigation
Product liability
Antitrust matters

Contract Management

Increasingly, corporate legal departments are seeking to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their service delivery model. Elevate helps corporations achieve these goals by providing the right amount of support for contracts, tailored to our clients’ needs. Clients can outsource the entire contract management lifecycle to Elevate or they can choose to delegate only specific steps of the process to Elevate. Our expert global teams act as an extension of the client’s own in-house resources, providing dependable support that can shorten cycle times and enable more experienced client staff to focus on higher value activities.

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Template Management
Negotiation Playbooks and Support
RFx Support
Contract Management and Abstraction

Contract Drafting and Revision
Contract Review and Redline
Contract Administration

Due Diligence

Mergers and acquisitions occupy a key role in modern business, which makes due diligence an absolutely critical function. By nature, M&A transactions require due diligence to be simultaneously rigorous, efficient, and cost-conscious, presenting significant business and legal challenges to GCs and outside counsel alike.

Elevate’s Due Diligence Support enables GCs and outside counsel alike to do more with less, staying focused on comprehensive strategy and risk assessment without being distracted by the operational minutia of due diligence projects. We can assemble large teams on short notice, onshore or offshore. Our expertise and methodical approach ensure effective, efficient and timely due diligence support that enables our clients to manage cost while meeting deadlines and successfully executing business-critical transactions.

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Documentation Review
Risk Identification and Assessment
Post M&A Contract Integration

Legal Invoice Review

Legal invoice review is the foundation of an organization’s larger Legal Spend Management goals. Establishing a strong invoice review program will drive immediate cost containment and improve efficiency as well as help clients improve data quality and gather valuable information about firm performance and behavior. Such valuable data can be employed as part of future cost containment initiatives such as legal panel reviews, alternative fee proposals, and vendor performance reviews. But it all begins with the foundation – legal invoice review.

Elevate’s Legal Invoice Review Methodology

Elevate understands the importance of integrating an extended legal invoice review service into the law department’s current system and tools. Doing so minimizes business interruption and also allows the law department to capture key legal invoice review data metrics within the existing applications. Therefore, Elevate has developed its legal invoice review service in a manner that easily allows for this as well as provides solutions in case the law department is not equipped with an eBilling solution.

Elevate also believes that the key to a successful legal invoice review program is consistency. In order to ensure such consistency, Elevate trains its reviewers to employ a 7-Point Legal Invoice Review Methodology (which can be configured to the client’s preferences).

Visibility through Legal Invoicing Data

Elevate’s legal invoice review services are unique in that we are also able to combine legal spend analytics and services into the legal invoice review process, if preferred. Through use of our Cael Vision platform, our legal invoice reviewers are able to generate powerful analytics and law firm performance scorecards by using legal invoice data to provide meaningful visibility into law firm billing performance.

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Capture missed savings associated with non-approved fees and expenses that are not capable of being picked up by eBilling systems
Reduce in-house lawyer time related to legal invoice review to enable focus to more high-value legal tasks
Ensure consistent and objective enforcement of legal billing guidelines
Enhance and normalize the quality of legal billing data to enable more robust legal spend analytics

Med Legal – Medical Claims and Litigation

Improve outcomes, expedite settlements, lower costs

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Elevate’s Med Legal services provide practical ways for law firms, claims and legal departments to improve efficiency, quality and outcomes in bodily injury cases.

Our review system brings together expert billing analysts, legal nurse consultants, life care planners, and editors, supervised by our executive team, ensuring the best in medical document analysis. Our reports are functional, comprehensive and easy to read. They unearth all strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to accelerate settlements and improve case outcomes.

Our medical legal expertise spans a broad spectrum of injury related cases, including product liability, personal injury, disability, environmental claims, medical device, pharmaceutical, toxic and mass torts.

Our services range from initial assessment to trial testimony. We regularly customize report packages depending on the specific case or project needs and phase of litigation, ensuring comprehensive, targeted reviews.

Medical Bill Review and Audit Services

From cursory reviews to detailed audits, we analyze past medical bills to determine total amounts billed, amounts paid, reasonable value of care with reports for early assessment through trial testimony.

Usual and Customary Review
Express Med Bill Audit™
Med Bill Audit™
Medical Bill Audit Analysis and Record Review
Medical Bill Valuation

Life Care Planning

Services to predict economic value of future medical care needs, ranging from a targeted assessment for limited care to full life care plan for trial testimony. Services include vocational rehabilitation plans and rebuttal consultations.

Future Care Cost Assessment
Cost Projection
Mini Life Care Plan
Life Care Plan
Life Care Plan Rebuttal
Vocational Rehabilitation Plan

Comprehensive Claim Reviews

Ideal for early case assessments, these detailed and thorough damage evaluations include past, present and future damages and injury analysis.

Record Review
Claim Evaluation
Comprehensive Claim Evaluation

Medical Record Analysis

Injury analysis, available in detailed formats or more abbreviated, targeted reviews.

Detailed Case Analysis (Personal Injury)
Detailed Case Analysis (Medical Malpractice)
Snapshot™
Core Data Report®
Quick-Prep™ (for any phase of litigation)
Medical Malpractice Case Screening

Compliance

Self-governance, compliance regulations, and best practices are among the fastest evolving landscapes in the legal and business world. The challenge of staying abreast of, and enforcing, local and global requirements often requires costs, expertise, and resources beyond what is internally available to many departments. Our team at Elevate specializes in providing managed project solutions, including consulting and designing comprehensive GRC Programs, for companies and law firms around the globe.

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Governance

Subsidiary Maintenance
Filing Preparation

Risk

Contract Provision Capture and Remediation, including Resolution Impacting Provisions
Vendor Management
Data Capture into Contract Management Software

Compliance

Gifts and Gratuities
Conflicts of Interest
Communication Surveillance, including FINRA e‑surveillance
KYC/Due Diligence
BSA/AML/Sanctions Compliance, including CIP, CDD, EDD, Sanctions, OFAC, PEP Screening, Transaction Monitoring
QFC reporting
GDPR and US Data Privacy
HIPAA
Regulatory Research
Regulatory Mapping

Practice areas include:

Financial Services, including FINRA Compliance
Insurance
Consumer Goods
Energy, including Oil and Gas
Metals and Mining
Pharmaceutical
Technology

IP Support

Elevate offers a wide range of intellectual property services, enabling both in-house counsel and law firms to achieve greater legal efficiency and cost control. We leverage the expertise of U.S. Attorneys with global IP attorneys and patent, trademark and engineering professionals, and our teams work with the most advanced research and analysis tools available. Our methodical, systemized approach ensures high quality, repeatable results in in all aspects of patent and trademark support. With extensive technical expertise and drafting experience, our team delivers high quality applications across a wide range of technologies.

Across the broad range of our IP services, Elevate helps GCs and law firms alike to reinvent their service delivery model, reducing overhead, controlling costs, increasing legal efficiency, and delivering high quality results.

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Patent Research and Analytics
Patent Preparation and Prosecution Support
IP Portfolio Management and Administrative Support
IP Licensing and Transaction Support
IP Litigation
Trademark and Copyright Services

Elevated Lawyers™

Experienced, talented lawyers and legal professionals, available for a fixed or indefinite period of time, working onsite at our customers’ offices or from any Elevate location worldwide.

Mergers and acquisitions expert with 9 years PQE in the telecommunications sector who speaks fluent Italian, working onsite at customer office in London

Team of eight commercial lawyers each with 6 years PQE, fluent in both English and French, working at Elevate’s office in Oxford, UK

Contract negotiation specialist with 15 years PQE, experienced with MSAs and SOWs in the technology sector, working at customer office in Silicon Valley

eDiscovery program manager (non-lawyer) with 15 years experience, familiar with financial sector regulations, working at customer office in New York City

The Need

Increasingly, corporate legal teams want to hire the right person, at the right time, for the right piece of work, but without going down the only route historically available to them: increasing their permanent headcount. The rest of the business world expects more flexibility than that, and the legal world is in need of more options.

The Solution

Elevate has experienced lawyers (from 2 years to 15+ years experience) with backgrounds in top law firms and in-house legal departments, who have chosen not to follow a traditional career path but to join Elevate as a next generation provider of legal services. Now, our customer can hire very specific skill sets for either fixed or open-ended periods of time to work on site within their legal department, all supported by our systematic approach to managing people and quality.

The Opportunity

(for lawyers and legal professionals)

Being an Elevated Lawyer gives you the opportunity to do interesting work with blue chip customer. We offer benefits and flex time, and we’re an energetic team who are passionate about customer service. Elevate is committed to fostering a culture that motivates our Associates to stay and develop professionally.