Her responsibilities include project budgeting, database design, data conversion, coding and data entry, document imaging, mobile computing, and trial presentation. She provides staffing for cases or specific projects and interacts with third party service providers. Remembering the frustration of losing valuable time as lawyers and paralegals struggled to master technology, Kaiser made it her first priority to develop clear, readable training manuals. Kaiser consults with law firms that engage her employer to provide document imaging and on-site technological support for complex litigation. After working with a trial team to identify its specific needs, she guides the team as it selects the most appropriate database.
Technology requires a substantial initial expenditure.
Supervising Paralegal and Law Firm Billing Manager for Southwestern Financial Services Corporation, the holding company of insurance companies. She can also promptly design tailored reports with any combination of user criteria. Frances Beall Whiteside uses word processing and communications packages to work from her home office in Dallas.