One Legal, Inc. Expands Electronic Court Filing and Process Serving Services beyond California through Acquisition of LawPlace LLC
Leading provider of online court services in California, One Legal, Inc. acquires LawPlace LLC to expand court filing services beyond California via electronic court filing and electronic process serving for the legal community.
Novato, CA (PRWEB) May 3, 2005 -- http://www.onelegal.com - One Legal, Inc.® a leading provider
of online court services in California, today announced the acquisition of
LawPlace LLC of Memphis, TN. LawPlace is a provider of electronic court filing
and electronic process serving to the legal community and their technology
complements that which One Legal currently has. LawPlace is also a BearingPoint
® Certified Partner enabling them to do electronic court filing in any court in
which BearingPoint has a contract, thereby broadening One Legal’s service area.
BearingPoint, Inc (NYSE:BE) is one of the world’s largest consulting, systems
integration and managed services companies offering business and technology
strategy solutions to a wide range of industries.
“We are very excited by
the opportunities presented by this acquisition”, said Robert DeFilippis, EVP,
One Legal. “LawPlace has strong, proven technology that will significantly
enhance One Legal’s ability to offer a turn-key electronic court filing
(eFiling) and eService system to courts and litigators in a number of states.”
“We are delighted to be joining forces with One Legal to capitalize on
the growing number of opportunities for the electronic filing of court documents
and electronic process serving,” said Bryan Barringer, EVP of LawPlace, “I am
personally very pleased to be joining the strong One Legal team”. Bryan is
joining One Legal as their Vice President of Technology.
About
LawPlace
LawPlace was founded in 2003 by Barringer and others. Since then the
company has enjoyed success through its electronic court filing (eFiling) and
eService offering for the 8th Judicial District Court of Clark County, NV as
well as the Texas Online venture via BearingPoint.
About One Legal
Founded in 1990 as Fax & File Legal Services,
Inc., One Legal was the first company to file an electronically transmitted
(faxed) court document with a California court. Since then, they have filed and
served millions of court documents in 170 plus courts in California through
their 17 company-owned branches. The company changed its name in 2003 to better
reflect the broadening of their service offerings as they entered the electronic
court filing and eService market. “Although Fax & File has tremendous name
recognition throughout California, we felt we needed a name that better
represented the future of our company and the changing technology,” said Bob
Battaglia One Legal’s co-founder and CEO.
One Legal is a privately held
company with more than 10,000 accounts with law firms, corporations, insurance
carriers and state and local government agencies. Most of the country’s leading
law firms have used One Legal’s services for time-sensitive court documents.
They are currently involved in three eFiling and eService pilot projects in
California. More information about One Legal can be found on the company’s web
site at www.onelegal.com.
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