The ReAlign® Process

The key to obtaining the best results in litigation is having a skilled, experienced trial lawyer who is focused and fully engaged in defense of the suit from the very start, and who understands that the lawyer's personal success is dependent upon the achievement of the best outcome for the client, not upon the number of hours billed or on the number of status reports that were written. Unlike other litigation management methods that attempt to insure quality by adding layer upon layer of oversight, control, and the auditing of outside counsel, ReAlign® empowers the trial lawyer, and rewards that lawyer for the outcome, not for the abundance of process.

ReAlign® has developed sophisticated communication and information management tools that permit "real-time" management. Instead of obtaining case information from lengthy, expensive, after-the-fact and self serving "status reports" [often prepared by junior lawyers], ReAlign® manages the litigation and gathers information through "video-conference roundtables". From the very outset of the litigation, trial counsel, ReAlign® professionals [each of whom has experience as trial counsel] and the client discuss and collect information from the outside counsel, and decide on a course of action that will achieve the best outcome for the client. Because the information is recorded in our proprietary case management system, routine status reports, budgets, and evaluations are no longer necessary from our outside counsel.

The Realign® process provides a true "win-win" for both the attorney and client. The corporate client benefits from the ReAlign® process because it has full access to our case file system, and obtains information instantly, and without the delay of receiving status reports. Information is more timely and accurate because it is not composed and edited after the fact, nor is it subjected to the "spin" of outside defense counsel. The client can participate in the development of the case, and the strategic decisions before there has been any significant investment in discovery or experts. Outside trial counsel benefit from our process because it empowers and rewards them based upon their skills as trial lawyers. Extensive oversight, micromanagement, and legal bill review and audit are unnecessary because the lawyers understand that personal success depends on their ability to achieve the client's goal of a successfully closed lawsuit. Further, the most common complaint made by insurance defense counsel is that their bills are paid late, examined and re-examined for "overcharges," and are unilaterally adjusted downward for what the client deems to be an "excess charge."

At ReAlign®, we have turned that entire process on it's head!
We have eliminated wasteful and distracting reporting requirements, reduced focus on the hourly rate, and eliminated the need for stringent bill review. Instead, we have instituted an econometric method of bill examination that identifies which firms provide the client with the best value for the dollar. This allows us at ReAlign® to assign new matters to those firms with stellar performance, and to eliminate those firms that are sub-par performers. The firms, themselves, know their performance, and what they must do to succeed.