Novus Law LLC: The New Certainty in Legal Project Management and Information Services
Novus Law LLC is a legal consulting and services company that fundamentally re-engineers the process of managing complex litigation, investigations, and compliance audits. The company operates as a legal information and services entity, distinctly stating that it is not a law firm and does not engage in the practice of law, instead offering a unique, process-driven approach to legal matters. Its core function is to find, document, and deliver the factual "story" embedded within clients' vast mountains of electronically stored information (ESI) with greater efficiency, accuracy, and predictability than traditional legal processes. Novus Law is positioned as a provider of "The New Certainty" in the legal world, marrying the art of practicing law with the science of modern process management and technology.
Continue…What Novus Law LLC Actually Does
The primary objective of Novus Law is to transform large, complex, and expensive legal challenges into manageable, predictable, and cost-effective operations. This is achieved by applying best practices from fields like manufacturing, aviation, and healthcare???specifically Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma principles???to the legal domain.
Novus Law's work is concentrated on the discovery and analysis phase of legal matters, which often involves millions of documents and pages. The company's multi-disciplinary executive team includes former senior legal executives, lawyers, and business professionals, combining subject matter expertise with professional management techniques. They use structured process control, quantitative analytics, and advanced technologies to organize, analyze, and transform case-related materials into actionable work product for their clients and their associated law firms. This operational streamlining is designed to expedite access to critical information, allowing clients and counsel to make better-informed decisions faster and resolve matters sooner, often resulting in significant reductions in overall legal operating costs.
Products and Services: The Novus Process???
The foundation of Novus Law's offering is the award-winning, proprietary methodology known as The Novus Process???. This process is a unique and powerful combination of rigorous process management, scientifically based quality control, and advanced technology applications, certified by UL DQS, Inc. (formerly Underwriters Laboratories) for its work process in the global legal profession. The Novus Process??? is composed of three distinct, integrated parts:
1. Novus One-Touch??? Process Management
- Focus: Efficiency and waste elimination.
- Description: This component uses Lean Manufacturing principles to re-engineer the traditional process of finding the story in case materials. It specifically targets and eliminates redundant steps, or "touches," that plague conventional document review and analysis. By processing individual documents in a single step, Novus One-Touch??? aims to reduce the mistakes, time, and costs associated with redundancies that can occur when lawyers repeatedly read documents unnecessarily as they build a case.
2. Novus Q??? Quality Management
- Focus: Accuracy and quality assurance.
- Description: This is a scientifically based quality control component that monitors and measures the quality of the work product. Novus Law has achieved world-class accuracy rates, which are independently verified through statistically valid quality review audits conducted by its clients' law firms. The emphasis on measurable quality control ensures that the delivered work product is reliable and can be used with confidence to pursue a legal strategy.
3. Novus C3??? Knowledge Management
- Focus: Communication, Collaboration, and Control.
- Description: Novus C3??? is an Internet-based, matter-specific technology application that serves as a single, open-access repository for all case-related information, including communication, work product, and project management data. It facilitates real-time transparency and collaboration among Novus Law's legal professionals, the client, and their law firms, providing a unified platform to control the strategic direction of matters and improve decision-making clarity.
Key Work Product and Deliverables (Novus CORE???)
As Novus Law applies The Novus Process??? to find the "story" in a client's documents, it prepares and delivers a comprehensive suite of work products in real-time, collectively known as the Novus Certified Organization of Relevant Evidence (Novus CORE???). The Novus CORE??? provides a highly organized and analyzed collection of information that legal teams can immediately leverage.
The key products and services delivered as part of this process include:
- Succinct Narrative Summary: A clear, concise summary of the facts of the case.
- Witness and Key Issue Files: Highly organized files for primary witnesses and central legal issues.
- Key Document Library: A curated collection of the most relevant and important documents.
- Privilege Log: A meticulously prepared log of documents withheld due to attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine.
- Chronology of Events: A detailed, verifiable timeline of significant events.
- Depositions and Trial Abstracts: Summaries of key testimony and trial information.
- Categorized Documents: Documents categorized by relevance, privilege, and other subjective criteria essential for legal strategy.
In essence, Novus Law LLC functions as a sophisticated legal project and program management firm, applying business and engineering rigor to the information-heavy aspects of the legal industry to make operational outcomes more predictable and legal matters more efficient and less expensive.
