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IKON Forms New Legal Enterprise Solutions Group to Leverage Its Suite of Technology and Services for the Legal Industry
Friday 12. September 2008 - IKON Legal Enterprise Solutions Supports IKON's Comprehensive Document Management Offering for Law Firms and Corporate Counsel
IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN), the world’s largest independent channel for document management systems and services, today announced the formation of a new strategic group, IKON Legal Enterprise Solutions. The group will leverage IKON’s full portfolio of document management technologies, on-site and off-site managed services and a comprehensive set of litigation support services to best meet the needs of law firms and corporate counsel. IKON Legal Enterprise Solutions combines the skills of professionals with extensive legal industry experience to support strategic development, technology investments, operational excellence, and sales and marketing of IKON’s full suite of services for the legal industry.
“Law firms and corporate counsel face a unique set of document management challenges and an increasingly complex digital landscape to support document processing, electronic data discovery, litigation support and records management,” said Vic Rainsford, IKON’s Vice President of Managed and Professional Services. “IKON Legal Enterprise Solutions has been organized to help IKON deliver its comprehensive offering for the legal community, helping customers manage their entire legal document workflow — whether it’s managing on-site copy and mail centers, off-site imaging or production work, electronic data discovery, records management, or other document services.”
IKON has more than 20 years of experience meeting the specific document management requirements of law firms and corporate counsel, offering services that include:
— Copy and mail center management
— Multifunction devices and color solutions
— Electronic data discovery solutions
— Document process and data capture — on-site or off-site at centralized production centers
— Backfile conversion
— Scanning, coding and imaging
— Records management
— Graphic support for litigation
— Document strategy and workflow consulting
— Cost recovery
The creation of IKON Legal Enterprise Solutions allows IKON to more closely align its on-site and off-site legal document processing capabilities to reduce redundancy in its production capacity and create a more streamlined footprint for both on-site and off-site processing. The nature of advanced digital technology and networked infrastructure to support imaging projects and electronic data discovery provides the opportunity for IKON to offer enhanced services to the legal community while at the same time improving operational efficiencies.
“Through this vertical market approach, IKON is best able to meet the document-intensive requirements of the legal community,” says Dan Murphy, IKON’s Vice President of Global Strategy and Communications. “At the same time, it allows IKON to create a more efficient production support network through a streamlined system of on-site and off-site processing centers, as well as further invest in litigation support technologies and overflow production capability to maximize the growth opportunities in the legal vertical.”