Nextpoint

Nextpoint is a privately-held Chicago based company that sells software as a service evidence management and electronic discovery tools to corporate legal departments and law firms. The company was founded in 2001.

Technology products

The company offers a software-as-a-service, cloud computing platform for use in electronic discovery and evidence management. The company's products are focused on four lines:

• Processing and Storage Cloud (PSC)
• Review Platform
• Trial Preparation
• Presentation

The company is notable for its simplified pricing models, month-to-month contracts, and the elimination of fess^{[clarification needed]} for image processing, upload, and TIF generation.^[1] Nextpoint allows for exports and imports from most existing litigation software platforms including Summation, Concordance, Live Note, and Trial Director.

Services

The company provides a range of technology, creative and project management services that support each phase of litigation from discovery through verdict. These services allow customers to self-select the amount of support they require on an individual matter. The company is known for regular retentions in high-exposure, high profile litigation and has built a reputation as one of the leading trial support companies in the nation. Services include creative consulting, animation development, informational design, on-site warroom support, and in-court presentation support.

Intellectual Property and Technology Innovation

The company develops its own products and owns the underlying code. Research and Development for Nextpoint is based out of the Nextpoint Technology Lab based in Madison, WI. The company actively uses and/or contributes to a number of open source platforms including: Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, Capistrano, Merb and MySQL. The company has filed for patents on a number of components of its products. The company’s innovative use of Ajax has been featured numerous times on ajaxian.com^[2][3]

Thought Leadership

Nextpoint’s senior management appears frequently at seminars and leading litigation technology industry groups. The company supports a number of blogs detailing its philosophy and upcoming development in their product lines including:

• Frank – general discussion on litigation technology
• The Lab Blog – written from the Nextpoint Technology Lab
• Juice – informational design

Customers

The company’s primary corporate customers include Bayer, ExxonMobil, Verizon, Pfizer and Cisco. Primary law firm customers include Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, McDermott Will & Emery, Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans & Figel, Novack & Macey, and Winston & Strawn. The company has a number of smaller, individual customers utilizing the company’s web-based products.

See also

• Ajax

References

1. ^ http://www.lawyersusaonline.com/index.cfm/archive/view/id/431013
2. ^ http://ajaxian.com/archives/nextpoint-taking-ajax-to-court
3. ^ http://ajaxian.com/archives/nextpoint-releases-open-source-project-growl4rails

External links

• Nextpoint Homepage
• Nextpoint Customer Log-in
• Frank
• The Lab Blog
• Juice
• Nextpoint Featured in Lawyers USA