recognizes as Diversity Partners companies and individuals who support the society through yearly commitments and sponsorships. Diversity Partners include vendors of legal services who provide litigation support to lawyers throughout North America and beyond. Diversity Partners have exclusive service areas and are endorsed by the society. Those selected by the society have proven track records among LCA Fellows and/or their firms and Fellows are encouraged to engage Diversity Partners whenever possible for the benefit of the society and the LCA Foundation. The LCA is pleased to include the following as Corporate Diversity Partners for 2012:
DecisionQuest
DecisionQuest is one of the nation’s leading trial consulting firms, assisting clients through the expert use of the art of persuasion – using research, visual communications, strategic communications and social media analysis. Over the past 30 years, its principals have been retained in over 15,000 high-risk engagements nationwide. Providing trial consulting and visual communications services to Fortune 1000 companies, DecisionQuest’s core capabilities include testing and developing case strategies; witness evaluation and preparation; community attitude survey analysis; jury selection; strategic demonstrative exhibits; and trial presentation assistance. DecisionQuest has 120 employees in 12 offices helping attorneys to realize the best case scenario. www.decisionquest.com
The Gnoêsis Group, LLC
Gnoêsis is defined as knowledge or wisdom acquired through deep, extensive experience. The background and experience of the principals of Gnoêsis give them the ability to participate in four independent but closely related areas: strategic legal consulting, contract legal professionals, legal recruiting and document review (including both traditional and managed reviews). Founded in 2008, The Gnoêsis Group provides corporate legal departments and law firms with innovative and cost-effective solutions to staffing issues as well as consulting services on such issues as legal supply chain management, client development, litigation strategy and competiveness in a changing marketplace. In addition, they are available to act as mediator, arbitrator or third-party neutral in disputes of all sorts. With headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, and offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Kansas City, The Gnoêsis Group is able to serve clients in any city in the country. They have worked with AmLaw 25 firms, small firms, boutiques and corporate law departments of all sizes. The Gnoêsis Group thrives on the challenge of providing strategic solutions to help their clients win in a manner that is consistent with their core set of principles: integrity, passion, excellence, service and wisdom. www.gnoesisgroup.com
Decosimo
Decosimo is a nationally recognized accounting and business advisory firm, perennially ranked as a top 100 CPA firm, with nine locations in the U.S. and the Cayman Islands. With 40 years experience clarifying complex financial issues and transactions, attorneys rely on Decosimo to present evidence and testimony before judges and juries in local, state, and federal courts. Decosimo has provided testimony in cases with damages ranging up to tens of millions of dollars and worked on over $17 billion in transactions across virtually all industries. Decosimo's forensic accounting team of highly credentialed professionals has earned the respect and continued business of some of the largest law firms in the U.S. by providing quality, specialized litigation support services to meet the complex needs of these firms. When you need a heavyweight with the skills, experience and credentials to provide you with independent, objective expert opinion testimony, contact Decosimo. http://www.decosimo.com
Millnet
Millnet is a global provider of Litigation Support and Consultancy Services. Millnet is unusual in still having a substantial “in-house” capability to provide scan, copy and coding services, with teams operating globally and particularly in Europe to convert hard copy into electronic format. As a pioneer of e-discovery services, Millnet has significant experience in providing legal consultancy advice – both on issues arising out of document and data processing and also on broader issues such as the application of the European Union’s Data Protection legislation. The team includes lawyers, leading industry technicians and litigation support managers with a law firm background and has a strong reputation in project management on complex cases. Millnet’s experience extends to most if not all the major technologies in the e-discovery space with particular experience of leading technologies such as Nuix, Index Engines, Equivio and Relativity. http://www.millnet.co.uk
Freedom Court Reporting
Freedom Court Reporting is a full litigation support firm specializing in court reporting services, real-time writers, videographers, records retrieval, electronic discovery, process serving and document reproduction. Freedom’s focus is to provide their clients with accurate, timely delivery of transcripts and video depositions, along with innovative trial consultation, to help them win their cases. Freedom offers a variety of litigation support services that can fit a wide variety of needs not only from the discovery phase but also through trial and/or mediation and everything in-between. Freedom also offers complimentary 24/7 worldwide access with time and money saving aspects with each service. www.freedomreporting.com
Hutchings Court Reporters
Experienced. Responsive. Accountable. Expansive. These are some of the terms associated to Hutchings’ nearly 60 years of experience serving corporate legal departments and law firms on local, national and international levels. Since 1953, Hutchings has built its excellent reputation upon the foundation of quality service, support and attention to detail. Services include court reporters, conference rooms, interpreters, video, video synchronization, videoconferencing plus text and video streaming. Anywhere in the world. Online scheduling and calendar review, digital transcript and document repositories, as well as real-time services, are some of the cost-saving technology features available in addition to an in-house technical support team. Hutchings’ extensive experience and insight in customizing and implementing successful court reporting programs can be a tremendous value to your legal team and clients. www.hutchings.com
