ABA TechShow Press Kit - Final

 ALLEGORY
ABA TECHSHOW
2016
Booth 815
Table of Contents
1. ABA TECHSHOW Press Release
2. Allegory Overview
Automating Everyday Litigation Tasks
Connecting the Case from Every Angle
Giving lawyers the answers they need at their fingertips
Sample Product Images
3. About Allegory
The Company
Allegory’s Customers
Allegory’s Partners
Sample of Allegory in the News
Allegory’s Founder
For more information on this press packet please contact:
Pavla Kopecna | PR Consultant | 917-635-2385 | [email protected].
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2 1. ABA TECHSHOW PRESS RELEASE
EMBARGO WEDNESDAY MARCH 16, 2016
Allegory Introduces Automated Litigation
Features at ABA TECHSHOW
Litigation software provider Allegory Law, Inc. continues to be a
leader in litigation management with the introduction of new
automation features that cut paralegal costs by up to 75%.
New York, NY and Chicago, IL, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 – In the first decade of
this century, e-discovery reached a tipping point, overwhelming the capacity of outside
counsel and crushing the budgets of corporate legal departments. Accordingly, the
multi-billion dollar e-discovery market was born to bring chaos into order.
Today, the same phenomenon is taking place in the traditional litigation process, as
lawyers try to wind their way through depositions, summary judgment, hearings, and
trial with a data dump of thousands – often, tens of thousands – of “highly relevant”
documents. It is no longer sufficient to limit technology use to e-discovery tools
designed solely for triage.
Recognizing the increasing importance of technology to streamline the traditional
litigation process, Allegory launches a series of client-responsive features designed to
automate everyday litigation tasks. Allegory – already a leader in litigation management
with its smart software approach and intuitive, lawyer-friendly interface – is increasingly
winning over lawyers and paralegals with new features that convert daily hours-long
headaches into few-seconds tasks at the click of a button, including:
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Automated Binders: Allegory enables users to create, edit, and re-order
Binders, including automatically creating a Binder from a simple list of Bates
numbers. Litigation teams create Binders 12x faster* with Allegory.
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Automated Exhibit Versions: Allegory enables litigation teams to consolidate emails and attachments at the click of a button to create their exhibit versions
without having to export and merge PDFs. Litigation teams create exhibit
versions 2x faster* with Allegory, without any loss of original data
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Automated Exhibit Sets: Allegory enables deposition, motion, and trial teams to
export hundreds of exhibits (cover sheets and all) at a moment’s notice.
Litigation teams create exhibit sets 30x faster* with Allegory.
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Automated Information Retrieval: Allegory’s context-display results, enhanced
filters, and real-time search updates enable quick and easy retrieval of
documents, key excerpts, and notes across the entire case at once – a favorite
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3 feature for senior partners using the tool. Litigation teams find the information
they need 56x faster* with Allegory.
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Automated Witness Prep: Allegory automatically cross-references everything in
the case relevant to a witness, from affidavits to transcripts to key evidence
excerpts. Litigation teams prepare for witness interviews and prep sessions 5.5x
faster* with Allegory.
“When lawyers can be both effective and efficient, everyone wins,” said Alma Asay,
founder and CEO of Allegory, who founded Allegory following six years as Litigation
Attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP. “Lawyers are able to spend more time doing
what they do best – the lawyering they were hired to do – and clients get what they paid
for, both in terms of value and results.” Allegory’s recent introduction of enhanced
automated litigation tasks can cut paralegal and lawyer time spent on such tasks by up
to 75%*.
Allegory works closely with its clients, comprised of talented litigation teams from
BigLaw and boutiques alike, to design features that incorporate and improve upon the
best practices of some of the best law firms (including Vault 10 firms) in the world.
Allegory has also recently introduced other client-friendly features, including a Relativity
plug-in, Outlook integration, and easy offline exports with linkable indexes for teams in
trial without Internet access. Allegory releases new features steadily throughout the
year in response to client requests – as often as weekly – to deliver what lawyers need
most when they need it.
For previews of Allegory, its newest features, and latest customer news, come by Booth
815 at ABA TECHSHOW, being held in Chicago, IL, March 16-18, 2016.
www.allegorylaw.com
*As measured by side-by-side comparisons by Allegory Inc., 2015 – 2016.
- ENDS Press contact and images:
Pavla Kopecna | PR representative
917-635-2385 | [email protected]
About Allegory
Allegory is a cloud-based litigation management tool designed and operated by a team
of BigLaw veterans. Founded by Gibson Dunn litigator Alma Asay, Allegory delivers a
first-of-its-kind software built specifically around the way litigation teams think and work.
Where Excel and Shared Drives are the rotary phone, Allegory is the smartphone of
litigation management, connecting everything litigation teams need at their fingertips in
the easiest, most intuitive way possible. Allegory clients include litigation boutiques,
AmLaw 100 law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies.
Learn more at www.allegorylaw.com. Follow on Twitter @allegorylaw.
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4 2. ALLEGORY OVERVIEW
Allegory is a mobile and secure cloud-based litigation management software that helps
lawyers win cases by:
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Automating everyday litigation tasks
Connecting the case from every angle
Giving lawyers the answers they need at their fingertips
Automating everyday litigation tasks
Allegory regularly introduces new features targeted at streamlining and automating the
most common litigation tasks. For example, Allegory automates:
Binders: Allegory enables litigation teams to create, edit, re-order, and export
any collection of documents in seconds.
Exhibits: Allegory enables litigation teams to create exhibit versions made up of
e-mails with attachments in one click, and automatically export exhibit sets with
cover sheets on a moment’s notice.
Order of Proof: Allegory tracks evidence linked to themes throughout the case,
enabling litigation teams to see at a glance how their evidence is stacking up and
easily organize – and support – their order of proof.
Connecting the case from every angle
Allegory connects the entire case in one place – and from every angle – so no piece of
evidence or legal argument is viewed in isolation. Allegory connects:
Evidence: “Key” documents – and other kinds of evidence such as audio-visual
files – such as those intended for use as deposition or trial exhibits.
Witnesses: The entire witness list, including fact witnesses, expert witnesses,
and persons with knowledge (e.g., 30(b)(6)).
Issues: Key issues in the case, including witnesses, themes, and/or facts.
Transcripts: Deposition, Trial, Hearing, and other types of transcripts.
Filings: The entire docket, organized by type of filing, including pleadings,
written discovery, motions, stipulations, and orders.
Correspondence: Letters, e-mails, and memoranda among counsel, clients, and
the court.
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5 Work Product: Legal memoranda, interview notes, deposition outlines, and
other internal work product.
Giving lawyers the answers they need at their fingertips
Allegory is smart software for smart lawyers, incorporating the best features of everyday
“smart” technology to enable lawyers to be at their best in the moments that count.
Search: Allegory provides “Google-like” search results across the entire case at
once, with context display enabling easy identification of targeted information
with minimal input.
Multiple Angles: Allegory enables the team to easily access the whole case
from the perspective of any one piece of information, whether a single document,
a filing, or a deposition.
One Tool: Allegory interconnects everything the litigation team needs in one
place, including evidence, witnesses, issues, transcripts, and case documents.
Only What You Need: Allegory enables litigation teams to target exactly what
they need, while weeding out what they don’t need.
At a Glance View: Allegory shows litigation teams not only what they have, but
also what they are likely missing, by designing information inputs and displays
around what information a team would ordinarily be expected to have.
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6 Sample Product Images
“Paperclipping” Attachments
Issues Index
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7 Offline Binder with Linked Index
Creating a Binder from a List of Bates
© Allegory Law, Inc.
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8 3. ABOUT ALLEGORY
The Company
Allegory is a secure cloud-based litigation management platform designed and operated
by a team of BigLaw veterans. Where Excel and Shared Drives are the rotary phone,
Allegory is the smartphone of litigation management.
Initially designed by a former Gibson Dunn attorney, Allegory has evolved to incorporate
feedback, suggestions, and best practices from some of the top litigators in the country.
Allegory delivers a one-stop litigation solution that connects all of the key pieces of the
case, so litigation teams can focus on a successful outcome for their clients.
As more and more lawyers seek to spend their time on the lawyering work they were
hired to perform, Allegory has become a sought-after tool, by small and big firms alike,
to help litigation teams take hold of their cases and be quick on their feet. Allegory
innovates not only on technology, but also on the legal processes incorporated into the
tool, to deliver a solution that makes litigation teams the best that they can be.
Founded in 2012 by Alma Asay, Allegory has raised just under $1 million from investors
and relies on keeping lawyers, paralegals, and other litigation professionals as
customers in order to fund its business.
Allegory Customers
Allegory customers include Am Law 100 law firms, litigation boutiques, Fortune 500
companies, and government agencies. Among Allegory’s customers are firms listed in
both Vault Law’s Top 10 for 2016 and the NLJ350’s 2016 Litigation Boutiques Hot List.
Allegory is known for its dedication to working side-by-side with clients to maximize their
advantages from using Allegory. The team at Allegory understands that technology is
best used by legal teams through a combination of technology and people. Accordingly,
Allegory delivers optional complementary services to get and keep cases up to speed,
so lawyers and paralegals can focus on maximizing outputs while Allegory focuses on
input.
Allegory also regularly releases new features – as often as once a week – in direct
response to client needs and requests. By releasing new features as soon as they’re
ready, Allegory makes the most of the cloud and close client relationships to deliver
clients the new features they need when they need them.
Allegory often starts on one case, but is regularly adopted as a multi-case tool with
increasing frequency as new cases come into the firm and more lawyers and paralegals
become loyal customers as they are exposed to Allegory’s advantages.
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9 Allegory Partners
Allegory has partnered with leading legal service providers to deliver all-in-one ediscovery + litigation management solutions, as well as deliver on-call litigation services
through Allegory. With the assistance of its partners, Allegory’s team regularly
augments litigation teams by assisting with tasks such as witness meetings, deposition
review, and trial prep. Allegory’s partners include:
Huron Legal (now Consilio): Huron Legal is the exclusive reseller of Allegory, hosting
its own instance of Allegory on the same servers as its e-discovery services. As part of
its delivery of e-discovery + litigation management services, Huron Legal has developed
a Relativity plug-in that enables one-click transfer of key documents from Relativity into
any instance of Allegory. For inquiries about Huron Legal’s services, including Allegory,
please contact Huron Legal’s dedicated Allegory representative, Melisa Twomey, at
[email protected].
Pangea3 (a Thomson Reuters subsidiary): Allegory works closely with Pangea3’s LPO
team to deliver next-level services to clients looking to reduce (and, via Allegory, flatrate) costs for repeatable litigation tasks such as deposition prep. By delivering
services through Allegory, Pangea3’s team can provide on-call support for a variety of
litigation services, while the lawyers and paralegals litigating the case know exactly how
the services will be delivered via Allegory. For inquiries about how Pangea3 works with
Allegory to serve litigation clients, please contact your Pangea3 representative or
[email protected].
Cicayda: Innovative e-discovery services and innovative litigation management
combine through use of Cicayda + Allegory. Together, the two services make the
transition from the e-discovery stage of your case to the litigation stage seamless, so
that you’re using the right tool for the right tasks at every step of the case. For inquiries
about how to work with Cicayda + Allegory, please contact Aaron Vick at
[email protected].
Sample of Allegory in the News
Monica Bay, Stanford Law School | CodeX, “Startup Watch: 2016 Legaltech & Beyond”
(January 31, 2016)
NYU Law Magazine, Making Software for Hard Cases (September 2015)
Erin E. Harrison, Legaltech news, “Legaltech News Announces Innovation Awards
Finalists” (May 28, 2015)
Inside Counsel, “Huron Legal e-discovery consulting and Allegory Law join forces to
create a full-suite litigation solution” (April 29, 2015)
Gabe Friedman, Bloomberg BNA, “Huron Legal Strikes Alliance to Extend eDiscovery
Services” (April 22, 2015)
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10 Eva Hibnick, The Recorder, “So You Want to Leave the Law Firm for a Startup…”
(February 25, 2015)
Nicole Black, The Daily Record, “LegalTech2015: Documents, data and e-discovery”
(February 12, 2015)
Joe Borstein, Above the Law, “alt.legal: I Bet You Haven’t Heard This One Before”
(September 25, 2014)
Allegory’s Founder
Allegory was founded by Alma Asay, a former BigLaw litigator in
the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. At Gibson
Dunn, Alma was a go-to second chair for one of the top trial
lawyers in the country – Orin Snyder – on high profile cases,
including for IAC/InterActiveCorp, NBC Universal, Cablevision, and
AMC Networks.
Determined to deliver the software and services of her litigator
dreams, Alma is the driving force behind Allegory. As a former litigator herself, Alma
understands the motivations, challenges, and pressures of high-stakes litigation, and
leads the company with all of these in mind.
After trying and failing to raise money in Silicon Valley, Alma has led Allegory to become
a go-to litigation management solution used by many of the best and brightest law firms
and corporations in the country on less than $1 million in funding.
Alma is one of a few female legal tech founders and one of the first and only female
BigLaw lawyers to found a legal technology startup.
For more information on this press packet
Please contact:
Pavla Kopecna | PR Consultant | 917-635-2385 | [email protected].
Founder and CEO Alma Asay will be available a t Booth 815 of ABA TECHSHOW being
held over March 16-18 at Hilton Chicago in Chicago, IL.
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