Gray Plant Mooty Gains Time, Money and Accuracy with Best Authority
5/26/2010
GRAY PLANT MOOTY GAINS TIME, MONEY AND ACCURACY
WITH BEST AUTHORITY®
Leesburg, VA – May 26, 2010 – Levit & James, Inc. (www.levitjames.com) announced today that Minneapolis-based Gray Plant Mooty (www.gpmlaw.com) has successfully implemented Best Authority® software. Best Authority assists the firm’s paralegals and other professionals in building a Table of Authorities, or “TOA,” dramatically faster and more efficiently than by manual methods.
Gray Plant Mooty Executive Director Karen Reynolds initially sought a TOA-production program after Jose Garcia, a paralegal in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, expressed concern about the burdensome, error-prone manual approach to building a TOA. Garcia was concerned that manually creating TOAs was not only time-consuming, but also put the firm at risk of missing citations. The TOA building sometimes distracted his team from concentrating on the content of a brief, which was especially true in the case of emergency filings. He explained to Reynolds that TOA errors reflect negatively upon the lawyers’ capabilities and professionalism in the eyes of the client, judges and opposing counsel.
Reynolds remarks, “I spoke with colleagues about TOA-creation and many forward-thinking firms were using Best Authority, so we evaluated and eventually purchased it. The hallmark of Best Authority is that everyone really likes it – there are no complaints. The longer the brief and the TOA, the more time Best Authority saves us, and the more time it saves, the more money it saves.”
Garcia points out, “Best Authority has reduced the time it takes me to create a TOA from 30-60 minutes down to about 5 minutes. Because I deal with a large number of emergency motions and last-minute filings, using Best Authority allows me to focus on proofreading the brief’s overall content, instead of worrying about proper TOA citation formatting. TOAs are important, and Best Authority is a timely, reliable and accurate resource which helps us to create them quickly and flawlessly.”
Levit & James Vice President Ian Levit notes, “We are pleased to provide Best Authority to Gray Plant Mooty. Best Authority dramatically streamlines the TOA creation process, and we are glad to hear the software is working so well for their firm.”
About Levit & James, Inc.
Levit & James, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Partner based in Leesburg Virginia, is a leading provider of Legal Software. For over 22 years, Levit & James’ customers, including government agencies, law firms, corporations, and individual users, have benefited from the company’s thoughtful and time-saving word processing utilities. 40% of the top two hundred fifty U.S. law firms have purchased Best Authority from Levit & James. For more information please call Ian Levit at 703.771.1549, visit www.levitjames.com or email to ianlevit@levitjames.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/levitjames.
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