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ASP.NET AJAXCASE STUDY

Legal Digital Shop Cuts Development
Time 70% with Telerik

Overview
Country
United States
SectorLaw

BACKGROUND
Juris Fabrilis, a digital shop targeted to lawyers in Fort Worth, Texas,
helps clients leverage technology to drive efficiencies and better
service. It offers end-to-end information technology solutions forattorneys, law firms and bar associations seeking a one-stop shopfor their needs. Because most of its clients cling to the use of paper,
Juris Fabrilis uses technology to revolutionize legal processes andconventions, helping to deliver a better overall customer experience
for those seeking legal expertise.
Such was the case for the State Bar of Texas when they launched“Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans” (TLTV), a community initiative tohelp provide free legal services to military veterans. This pro-bono
network serving clients in the Fort Worth, Texas area drew

Customer profile
Juris Fabrilis offers end-to-end
solutions for attorneys, law firms andbar associations, seeking a onestop-shop for all their information
technology needs.
Challenge
Working to benefit Texas Lawyers
for Texas Veterans (TLTV), Juris
Fabrilis needed to leverage web
development technologies to launcha nonprofit and create cohesive
systems for its geographicallydispersed volunteer base.
Solution
Using Telerik RadControls forASP.NET AJAX, Juris Fabrilis createdthe TLTV website in record time
helping to serve hundreds of Texas
veterans in need of pro-bono legalservices.
Benefits• 70% savings in development time
• Quality controls with a broad rangeof functionality• Fully extensible and customizable

www.jurisfabrilis.com

Jeffrey Sanford, Director of Salesand Operations at Juris Fabrilis, oneof the developers charged with theTLTV project and a military veteranhimself, was very sensitive to potential
client concerns, “These guys areused to sitting around the Veterans
Administration all day waiting to beseen. We didn’t want that kind ofexperience for them.”
TLTV was a new concept with adecentralized leadership, so Juris
Fabrilis had little direction to guidesite development. Having used Telerik
RadControls, the agency designed
the organizational process aroundthe software capabilities. Says Jeffrey,“We built the everyday workflow toalign with what the software could dofor them.”
volunteers from across Tarrant
County. So much so, the wide
geographic dispersion made itdifficult to get the effort off theground. Juris Fabrilis determinedthat TLTV needed a coordinated web
presence to best run the program.
Having experience with Telerik,
Juris Fabrilis turned to Telerik’s
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX tolaunch this important web-based
effort.

The Challenge
Reliable Productivity with
Telerik Tools
Telerik RadControls are the result often years of constant development
and refinement aimed at delivering
quality tools developers can depend
on. Instead of developing thedrudgery, Telerik frees developers
to code the customizations andextensions that make sites unique.
RadControls enables developers
to form the foundation by using
any of the over 70 highly optimized
controls for rapid component-based
UI development. This produces
efficiencies which directly translate totime, money, and effort saved.

The TLTV site had to serve four main
constituencies: attorneys, clients,volunteers, and the TLTV committee
leadership. The site functionality had
to launch the organization, publicize
its legal clinics, offer client schedulingfor those clinics, and deliver reporting
data to the TLTV committee, theTarrant County Bar Foundationand the Texas Access to JusticeFoundation. Because of the diverse
groups coming online, each needed
an easy way to touch data most
relevant to them. Overall, the key
challenge was data management andorganization. The site had to be easy
to navigate for all parties, yet produce
a positive client experience.

The Solution
Juris Fabrilis built the initial TLTV siteusing the AJAX tool set, regular CSS,
and RadRotator for their homepage.
According to Jeffrey, “the template
function made it super easy toimplement. I’ve been a fan of thesetools since the company started. We
use Telerik tools in just about every
project we have, and they’ve always
been first rate.”
Juris Fabrilis used a combination oftools for the TLTV site. They started
with the RadMenu and RadTabStrip
to provide smooth navigation,then added RadGrid and RadChart
to display the clinic schedule andclient activity data in a clean andintuitive format. Speaking about
RadGrid and RadPageView, Jeff
stated the tools, “Make it really easy
for them to manage a bunch of
their data, with all information onone page.” Additionally, the big plus
was the RadScheduler, an essentialsite component that helps quicklyvisualize client flow on clinic days. Italso enables them to advise clients
what time to return if they come tothe clinic too early. Juris Fabrilis also
used RadGrid’s nesting feature tohelp TLTV drill down to the caseby-attorney level, which together
with pie and line graphs, provide
the organization case detail andreporting numbers in an easy-toread format. “In all,” says Jeff, “Telerik
made it easy to quickly implement
the site because I could rely on tools
I knew were going to work. Theyalways do.”

The Benefit
Using Telerik RadControls forASP.NET AJAX was a great successfor both TLTV and Juris Fabrilis. Theagency turned the project aroundin 30 percent of the time it would
normally take to develop. An addedplus was the superior site usability, “At
the end of the day, a consistent lookand feel is just as important as thefunction.” Says Jeff, “We need people
to move fast, and the siteenables that.”
In fact, the TLTV site was the primaryfactor enabling the organization
to serve as many veterans as it
has. To date, almost 1300 veteranshave been served by the free TLTV
clinics that would not otherwise
have been helped, “Juris Fabrilis isproud to support the troops and thevolunteers who are helping them. The
site has enabled TLTV to outperform
previous attempts at pro-bono clinic
management by a significant margin,”says Jeffrey.
In fact, the Tarrant County Bar
Foundation chapter of the TLTV
was selected as the winner of the2012 National Conference of BarFoundations/LexisNexis Partnerships
for Success Award. The award honors
bar foundation initiatives that make asignificant impact in their community
on issues for which lawyers are
uniquely positioned to lead. TLTV wasthe sole winner.

The Verdict
Juris Fabrilis is beginning work on
a TLTV portal, with the goal being
to have attorneys self-maintaintheir caseload. The more TLTV canstreamline their processes, the moreveterans they can serve, so leveraging
the website is essential for theorganization going forward. Says Jeff,“Whatever TLTV can dream-up, wecan make—and we know we’ll turnit around in a short amount of timeusing Telerik tools.”“We’ve had a lot of success withTelerik and use the toolset for every
project. Whenever a Telerik license
comes-up for renewal, I say ‘noproblem, I know I need this.’ We candeliver projects faster with Telerik,
and that’s good all around. You don’t
need 100 tools, you just need theright ones. For us, that’s Telerik.”

Find out more
About Juris Fabrilis
Juris Fabrilis is a legal-market-specificprovider of managed and on-site
information technology services based inFort Worth, Texas. They offer an end-toend solution for attorneys, law firms andbar associations, seeking a one-stop-shop
for all of their information technology
needs. Juris Fabrilis’ outsourced
technology services help Texas attorneys,
law firms and bar associations become
more productive, efficient and stable —for less.
About RadControls
for ASP.NET AJAXRadControls is a complete ASP.NET AJAX
development toolset comprising morethan 70 highly optimized controls built for
rapid component-based UI development.
Customer surveys show that using

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