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1.1 Mission
Web Services Provider’s mission is to offer high-quality Internet services, Web hosting and DSL service to large and small clients.
eDocFile has electronic filing systems that can be used by state courts. Around 90 million legal documents and 90 million cases pass through the US courts each year. The flow of civil and criminal filings is too much for the states. Year after year, the number of federal court cases keeps rising dramatically. Courts keep adding judges and judicial officers to handle this work.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of the judicial processes are not automated. It is urgent that a cost-effective and integrated digital solution be developed using available technology. eDocFile is an online solution that can transform the practice of law. It’s cost-effective and simple to use. eDocFile goes beyond simply sending documents back to the other side. It acts as a digital bridge between the electronic worlds of the court and the law firm’s electronic world. It allows both courts and law firms to exchange and access all case information, not just documents.
E-Filing allows courts instant access to court documents. Instead of having to call archives and ask for a document to be found, copied, and delivered. Judges are able to simply access documents through their computers. Court documents can be archived electronically, making them easily accessible and saving millions of dollars in the process. An attorney can view docket information or schedules on the Internet. He/she can pay filing fees, download documents immediately from the court, see case documents and exhibits, as well as track the work of opposing counsel.
Courts and law firms both benefit from efficiency. Efficiency comes from being in a position to instantly access information, communicate with others, and transact business from any PC. eDocFile offers a simple to use yet comprehensive system that facilitates the flow of information from one party to another in an efficient, cost-effective and seamless manner.
If electronic filing is so great, why aren’t we all using it? There have been many small projects in the United States. Unfortunately, most have either failed, been terminated or are defined as “requirements” projects for future systems. None have made enough of a financial gain for court efficiency to attract support for the infrastructure funding.
The technology is the primary problem. Many of the components for electronic filing have been around for some time. However, the lack standards, difficulty in integration, insufficient customer support and inadequate training have all been major limiting factors. In the past few years, personal computer technology’s power has increased significantly and its costs have fallen. Data storage costs have dropped from more than $1,000 per megabyte on early PCs, to less than five cents per megabyte today. The price of data storage is falling by approximately 50 percent every year. In order to link our systems together, there was no universal communications system, which had standard protocols, interfaces and protocols, even just a few short years ago.
The security and scalability problems of the Internet still remain unresolved. eDocFile is able to solve these issues and provide a unified e-filing/document management system for both national and state courts. At the same time, we will establish brand name recognition, capture significant market share, and generate a sustainable revenue stream that will fund growth and development of new products as we grow from a niche player to the premier legal Internet portal.
1.1 Mission
Our mission is to listen carefully to the needs of our customers in order to meet them. We are determined to become the premier provider of secure and user-friendly electronic filing systems for courts, judicial administrations and other governmental agencies using Web technology.
eDocFile aims to provide small and medium sized courts with the ability to automate filing and document management by using a Web-based extranet. You can file documents electronically with these courts by lawyers in these jurisdictions from your private workspace. This will allow you to handle cases and dockets faster and more cost-effectively. eDocFile combines both electronic filing and document administration in one Web-based extranet. This provides clients, lawyers and courts, with the best system for litigation management. There are minimal hardware and software restrictions, and you have the largest choice of technological features.
1.2 Objectives
eDocFile is a three-phase concurrently developed cycle.
LearningKnowing your customer, the products and the competitors is crucial for success. Planning, research, development and marketing are crucial steps in this cycle. The following are the objectives of this phase
Become experts on the legal market and have a database of competitors, market analysis, and customer needs before beta version of extranet is completed.
Have beta version completed within three months of capital formation.
Establish strong working relationships between court systems and their decision-makers by meeting and planning a mutually beneficial plan for success.
Support, services and products can be pledged by May Year 1 in support of EDocFile’s launch in August Year 1.
Earning
eDocFile’s market position will promote earnings and growth in new customers through marketing, sales, customer service, execution of action plan, and continuing learning.
Establishing brand awareness and brand recognition that positions eDocFile as the market leader for safe, simple and reliable Web based electronic filing system between lawyers and courts.
Many target courts are without a comprehensive computer management system; our easy to use Web based extranet system allows our customers to manage filings and internal document management.
Market metrics are important for measuring market penetration success. This includes market presence in all 15 top legal markets in the country. eDocFile will double these metrics semi-annually to reach market dominance.
By the middle year, you can start generating positive cash flows.
Returning
Many Internet companies have found their Achilles heel in balancing long-term sustainability, profitability, and short-term needs and change. We believe that eDocFile’s policy of giving back or returning to the community (employees customers shareholders) will allow for equitable apportionment without redundancy and excessive waste. The following are the objectives of this cycle
Develop a mission statement that reflects the founding values and gives a mandate to culture creators for creating a culture that attracts and retains the best and brightest talent.
Establish a holistic structure within the organization that is flexible to market changes and responsive to market requirements. This model is based on the concept of “a continuous learning organization” with training and marketing functions binding the entire organisation.
Develop value-added components that will take eDocFile beyond a niche player and make it the most popular legal portal on Internet by 2006. This requires creating action-oriented features, which is a way to make customers’ lives easier.
eDocFile will achieve success by focusing on the customer and employing innovative, enthusiastic employees.
1.3 Keys to Success
These are the keys for success in this business:
Marketing:
Establishing brand name.
Constructing trust between courts, eDocFile and other parties to create barriers for entry by competitors
