Customers Rush to Complete QShift Pilot Phase; On-Demand Service Becomes Commercially Available Today.KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Early Subscribers Using Smart Document Drafting Service to Create Affordable Document Knowledge Bases; Train Junior Staff Greeted by greater than expected customer demand from law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
QShift is a subscription-based application for lawyers, which provides "smart document drafting on demand." "I don't consider myself skilled on a computer beyond point-and-click, but in a few minutes I figured out QShift, and now I can draft client work faster and better than before," said John West, Esq., a sole practitioner who was one of several dozen lawyers actively participating in Ixio's QShift pilot testing phase. "I've now assembled an on-line library of document models that I can easily and consistently adapt when I need to produce something for my clients." Over 200 legal professionals showed interest in the Beta Program. "Unlike the big firms, small and medium-sized firms don't have the luxury of hiring dedicated staff to develop good document databases," said Dwight Wheaton, a corporate law and private equity specialist at Cairncross Hempelmann, P.S., a 37-attorney firm based in Seattle who also participated in the QShift pilot. "QShift allows you to build-as-you-go a knowledge base of annotated documents. And you know the templates are good because you can control who in the firm creates the models in the first place." QShift solves the problem of the intellectual bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU that constrains productivity in many law practices today. From Document Drafting to Staff Training For mid-sized firms, perhaps the greatest benefit of QShift is the ability to use annotated document templates as training tools for junior staff. "Once I create a document model, I can put comments and annotations based on my experiences and from my research right there in the template (1) A pre-designed document or data file formatted for common purposes such as a fax, invoice or business letter. If the document contains an automated process, such as a word processing macro or spreadsheet formula, then the programming is already written and embedded in the ," explained Wheaton. "So now junior attorneys can use the document model as a sort of tutorial An instructional book or program that takes the user through a prescribed sequence of steps in order to learn a product. Contrast with documentation, which, although instructional, tends to group features and functions by category. See tutorials in this publication. . I don't need to spend a significant amount of time to explain why each clause is included in a document." "QShift gives you a way to share the knowledge of your most senior staff and share your firm's best practices," added Craig Kobayashi, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ixio. "You can use the tool to leverage your partners and associates, and empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems your paralegals and law clerks law clerk n. A person, typically an attorney, employed as an assistant to a judge or another attorney, especially in order to gain legal experience. with what is essentially a practice guide. QShift puts the domain expertise of your firm where it is needed most: at the point of practice where the actual document drafting takes place." Pricing & Availability QShift does not require any IT involvement to deploy or any up-front capital investment; it is delivered as an Internet-based subscription that is available on-demand whenever and wherever needed. All resulting documents remain securely on the lawyer's computer or laptop Same as laptop computer. laptop - portable computer . There is no software to buy. QShift is now available for $55/month or $150/quarter, and can be downloaded at http://www.ixio.com/get_qshift/try_qshift.aspx. Included is a 30-day free trial period. About Ixio Corporation Ixio Corporation was founded in 2002 to solve serious problems of work product information management in professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. settings such as the practice of law. Ixio's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , QShift(TM), is a patent-pending applied knowledge management technology using an Internet-based, on-demand computing See utility computing. model. Ixio is privately held and headquartered in Kirkland, Wash. For more information visit www.ixio.com or call 877.ASK.IXIO (877.275.4946). Ixio, the Ixio logo, QShift, the QShift logo, "Knowledge at the point of practice," "Smart document drafting - on demand," and "Practice on Demand" are trademarks or service marks of Ixio Corporation. All other trademarks and company names are the property of their respective owners. |
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