Extensive Range of Administrative Legal Support Services

Doc.box is pleased to offer a range of administrative legal support services to qualified legal practitioners, which are provided under your supervision in accordance with the Legal Profession Act 2008.

Service Features

We have a team of experienced law clerks and access to practitioners with appropriate expertise that are ready to assist you at your request. The service offerings include:

• Administrative litigation support (with a focus on the preparation of Appeal and Trial Books)
• Law cost preparation
• Citation checking
• Document preparation

The Benefits

The benefits of using doc.box's administrative legal support services include:

• Real cost savings of 20% to 50% with no up-front costs and no overheads
• Increased capacity and a flexible road to growth for your firm
• Strategic management and focussed leadership
• Better work allocation and asset utilisation

How it works

A senior doc.box manager will personally coordinate, monitor and review the completion of your work request.

Our manager is accessible at all times as your point of contact and will keep you informed of the progress of your work request up to completion, as well as answering any queries you may have along the way.

Instructions are given to doc.box via our online system in the form of web-based forms. After completing the online instructions:

• You print them and doc.box will attend to collect your work request together with any documents and files that may be required by us; and
• We will confirm your instructions by email.

Web-based instructions are tracked on the doc.box online system so that you are always up-to-date on the progress of your work request.

Location

Our staff can operate from your premises or ours. You decide the best approach and doc.box fits right in.

Preparation of Appeal Books

One of our areas of expertise is the assistance in the preparation of Appeal Books.

Our staff are experienced in complying with the Courts' rules and procedures for the preparation of Appeal Books. Upon receiving your instructions, with your assistance, we prepare the Appeal Books in accordance with the requirements of the Rules of the relevant jurisdiction, by:

• Drafting Appeal Book indexes and cover sheets
• Filing indexes at the Court of Appeal for settling
• Preparing page numbering and column referencing (i.e. A, B, C ... column indexing)
• Preparing draft Appeal Books for settling with other parties
• Serving Appeal Books for checking by the other parties
• Liaising with other parties to incorporate your agreed amendments to the Appeal Books
• Obtaining executed Certificate of Readiness
• Printing and binding as required
• Filing settled Appeal Books at the Court of Appeal
• Serving settled Appeal Books on the other parties.

Preparation of Trial Books

Another area of expertise is the assistance in the preparation of Trial Books.

Supervision of Work

All work undertaken by doc.box pursuant to your work request is performed under your supervision in accordance with the Legal Profession Act 2008.

To ensure proper control and compliance with the Legal Profession Act 2008, the draft Appeal and Trial Books are presented to you for your approval at each stage and before they are filed or served.