eAttorney and Fios Offer Lawyers Access to Electronic Evidence Discovery Tools

Business Wire, Sept 21, 2000

Business Editors/Legal & High Tech Writers

PORTLAND, Ore. & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2000

Fios Inc., a premier provider of electronic evidence discovery and digital risk analysis services, and eAttorney, Inc., the leading legal Application Service Provider (ASP) and destination site, have joined forces to provide electronic evidence process and consulting services to the legal community through www.eAttorney.com.

eAttorney users can now engage Fios's expert services from within the eAttorney web interface. The partnership will help eAttorney's users to improve litigation practices by assisting litigators identify, capture, analyze and use electronic evidence during discovery.

"Our partnership with eAttorney enables lawyers to quickly and efficiently find and use electronic discovery data," said Richard Lazar, President and CEO of Fios. "Litigators in the eAttorney community can now easily engage Fios to assist in locating and processing electronic evidence that might be inadvertently overlooked when analyzing printed versions of documents and other electronic files. This additional information exists only in the original electronic files and can be key in winning a case."

eAttorney provides its legal community with an integrated suite of front and back office applications, and attorney focused business and e-commerce services. The partnership offers litigators in the eAttorney community software tools for discovering electronic data. Once electronic evidence is acquired, Fios consultants and processing center advisors assist the legal team in converting, categorizing and searching this data to identify all relevant material. Fios then creates and maintains a highly secure, searchable data repository from which the legal team can access their case data over the web.

"This partnership provides the very best in digital discovery with the guarantee that all the content found in electronic files is available to the attorney on the case," says Sam Kellett, CEO of eAttorney. "Easy-to-access digital discovery is a worthy addition to our growing number of attorney focused services that address the ever changing needs of legal professionals in a digital age."

About eAttorney, Inc.

Atlanta-based eAttorney, Inc. is the legal community's leading Application Service Provider (ASP) and destination site (www.eAttorney.com). eAttorney solves the unique problems faced by the law firms due to inefficient processes and disparate systems through a comprehensive suite of Internet-based, front and back office applications, business and e-commerce services - all through a single point of access.

Law students, law firms and attorneys use eAttorney's On Campus Interviewing Plus (OCI ) to assist them with recruiting and career placement. The National Association for Law Placement (NALP), a non-profit educational organization designed to meet the needs of the law community, exclusively endorses OCI as the preferred on-campus recruiting service for students and lateral attorneys. eAttorney is used by 40,000 attorneys, 52,000 students, 57 law schools, including Duke University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and many leading law firms, including Shearman & Sterling, King & Spalding, Sidley & Austin, Baker Botts and Kilpatrick Stockton.

About Fios

Fios (pronounced fee-os, which is Gaelic for knowledge) is experienced in providing comprehensive electronic evidence discovery services to litigation teams and corporate legal departments. Fios was established in response to the explosive growth in digital information. Founded in 1999, Fios offers technologies, resources and support not otherwise available in today's market.

Fios is positioned to become a market leader in the rapidly emerging field of digital information risk analysis and management services. The ubiquitous use of computers and other electronic devices is creating a rapidly rising wave of new and stored digital information. The massive proliferation of data creates ever expanding digital information risks to organizations and individuals.

For more information contact Terry Murphy, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, at 877-700-3467, 503-265-0703, or visit http://www.fiosinc.com