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JULIE BROWN VORYS, SATER, SEYMOUR AND PEASE LLP The Evolution L 10 itigation technology professionals are a group of people passionate about finding and supporting technology solutions for litigation. As litigation technology has evolved and become more sophisticated, so have the skill sets of these support professionals. There was no training program for these individuals in the early days; they were self-taught or taught by others in the profession. Few, if any, actually had a litigation support title and many were paralegals or IT staff. Litigation and Practice Support ILTA White Paper of Litigation Support During the ‘80s, service bureaus such as Quorum and Arthur Andersen were offering litigation support services. Tools such as ZyINDEX, MARS (Macintosh- based optical imaging system), Paradox, Symantec’s Q&A, Ipso Facto and Discovery ZX (just to name a few) entered the litigation world in the mid-‘80s, followed by such case management applications as Summation and Concordance in the late ‘80s. Some of these tools supported full text transcripts, while others supported images and optical character recognition (OCR). Many were used for coding key words and creating indices