1. Who these standards are for

The Competency Standards for IT Litigation Support Paralegals are designed for use by paralegals and other non-lawyer IT professionals  engaged in  litigation support work.

2. Number of levels

The IT Litigation Support standards are likely to be set at approximately five levels, reflecting the complexity of the litigation support world.

3. Guidance for Institute members

Guidance on use of the IT litigation support standards will be provided once they are more advanced in their development.

4. Stakeholders

We are delighted to be working in conjunction with Potter Farrelly - the industry leader in specialised information management for the legal and justice sector in Australia, Asia, Canada and Europe.

The standards are being drafted with the involvement of leading industry groups such as LiST (the Litigation Support Technology Group).

5. Publication information

We hope to have the IT Litigation Support NCS ready for publication in by the end of 2010.

6. Additional Information

If you wish to become involved in drafting this series of Standards (organisations only please) then contact Steve Wilcock at steve@ theiop.org (Note break in link)

7. Downloading your copy

Drafting is not yet sufficiently advanced for us to attach a copy for download.

When available it will be published here as a .PDF file. If you cannot open a .PDF document then you can download a free copy of Adobe Reader by clicking here. Alternatively, if you subscribe to the IT litigation support series of NCS we will send you a set in Word 97-2003 format.

8. Subscribing

Although you can download a  copy for free here in .PDF format you should consider taking out an annual subscription to the series relevant to you. Subscriptions cost GBP £70 per year, per series of standards. 

The advantage of subscribing is that you:

Automatically receive all updates, amendments, corrections and notices concerning that series and the standards in general

Receive copies altered to let you easily mark standards as having been met, and which also allow  for a verifier to initial his/her confirmation

Receive copies in Word 97-2003 format for easy editing/cutting and pasting

Have the opportunity to speak with us about implementation of the standards

Are eligible to be/register candidates for the LPQ qualifications

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