The Future Is Now: Global Litigation, Digital Workflows and Electronic Proceedings

Parties and witnesses in this confidential matter were also able to follow and participate in the proceedings, as necessary, from a variety of locations worldwide. The parties agreed to share the costs associated with setting up the cloud-based infrastructure, which gave authorized participants secure access to all case-related materials in a variety of media from their preferred Internet-connected device. The same infrastructure also established private virtual workspaces (“war rooms”) for legal teams to share amongst themselves, providing them with round-the-clock online access to the same case materials — as well their own work product — to facilitate collaboration on the tactical and strategic details that would shape the legal arguments they would ultimately present in hearings.