Equitrac Corporation announced an agreement with New Orleans-based law firm Phelps Dunbar LLP for the upgrade of the firm's cost-recovery and print management software to Equitrac's award-winning Equitrac Professional 5 solution for the legal and professional market. Too many workers mistakenly believe their personal printers are more convenient, secure and economical than your high-volume networked multi-function devices - when in fact, they waste money, time and resources.

    Phelps Dunbar hires highly motivated law students with outstanding academic records and diverse interests. In addition, throughout the year, we hire a number of lateral attorneys who have relevant experience in one or more of our practice areas. In recruiting both law students and experienced attorneys, we are interested in individuals who are bright, motivated, and committed to developing their legal skills, as well as growing as professionals. Equitrac's fifth-generation cost recovery solution, Equitrac Professional 5 offers software tracking of scanned, copied, faxed and printed documents along with call accounting and disbursement capture for more efficient discovery and recovery of client billable expenses.

    Equitrac Professional 5 also provides the benefits of Equitrac's enterprise-strength print management technology, including tools to reduce output costs, improve security, and simplify IT infrastructure through active output management, automatic job routing, and Follow-You secure document release that is fully integrated in the network services application.

    Integration with document management systems from Hummingbird, Worldox and Interwoven, among others, provides automatic matter-centric allocation of document expenses based on the extensive data available in the DMS document profiles. Phelps Dunbar determined that Equitrac Professional 5 is the best option for consolidating the Firm's existing separate print management and cost- recovery applications into a single platform for current and future needs. Equitrac Professional 5's ability to integrate smoothly with the Firm's existing Citrix delivered IT infrastructure and its positioning as the platform of the future made it a natural choice.

    "We're very pleased that a prestigious firm like Phelps Dunbar, one of the oldest law firms in continuous practice in the South with offices across the country and abroad, has chosen Equitrac Professional 5 as its next-generation print tracking and cost-recovery solution," Michael Rich, CEO, Equitrac. "We know the EP5 solution suite will give Phelps Dunbar the platform they need as an effective and scalable, long-term solution in support of the modern, digital practice throughout their legal office environment."

    Equitrac Professional 5's advanced services feature direct integration with all leading time and billing systems, Microsoft, Novell and Citrix network infrastructures, and more products from independent legal solutions providers than any other vendor. With Equitrac Office you can reduce print waste and costs, direct output to your most efficient printers and provide true print security and convenience. Plus, track, analyze and allocate the cost of every document output to any device.

    By providing a standardized, next-generation cost recovery and print tracking solution on a single, scalable network services based platform, Equitrac Professional 5 also simplifies and centralizes IT maintenance and administration, leverages existing hardware investments for greater efficiencies and reduces the total cost of MFP and output device fleet ownership.