Epoq US, Inc., based in Owings Mills, Maryland, and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (Headquarters Office), together with its partner organization, Epoq, based in the UK, are the world's leading providers of web-enabled smart legal forms and documents to both consumers and small businesses.  Epoq's smart legal forms® and legal documents are powered by Rapidocs®, Epoq's award-winning proprietary document automation technology which has as its core an "intelligence engine".  This engine enables our legal forms and documents to conform to an individual user's circumstances. Our smart legal forms® think like lawyers without the high cost of legal fees.

From estate planning to divorce, name change, business formation and agreements, human resources documents and the other 450+ automated legal forms and documents distributed via our highly specific web sites, Epoq is demonstrating that there is an alternative to the high cost of legal fees.

How We Work with Clients

We sell our smart legal forms® and legal documents directly to consumers and small business through our own network of retail web sites, both in the US and the United Kingdom.   In addition, we specialize in enabling financial institutions, non-profit associations and other customer-facing organizations to provide our web-based legal solutions to their customers and clients as a value-added benefit. Our new DirectLaw web service offers a hosted solution to solos and small law firms that enables them to offer legal services on-line without a large capital investment.

We are a trusted provider to many of the world's leading financial institutions and now provide services to over 1 million of their customers.

Epoq has invested over $15 million in technologies and relationships to fully manage the delivery of legal services. We have developed over 400 individual award-winning solutions (including Wills, Divorce and Employment), and work with our network of highly respected legal call centers and institutions throughout the United States and the UK.

Rapidocs

We have achieved high levels of standardization and accessibility by developing our own document automation technology, called Rapidocs®, which is now in its third generation. Rapidocs is fast becoming the industry standard having been adopted by leading international legal publishers, corporate legal departments and law firms. Rapidocs 4.0, our web solution, that operates completely within the web browser was released on December 1, 2008.

Digital Legal Solutions

Epoq's "web-enabled digital legal solutions" are software applications distributed over the Web, enabling a user to solve a legal problem without the assistance of an attorney or with limited assistance from an attorney.

Examples of "digital legal solutions" are:

• automated document assembly systems -- our primary product line;

• web-based legal advisors;

• intelligent calculators;

• intelligent knowledge management systems; and

• intelligent preventive law checklists.
  
  A "digital legal solution" can provide a low-cost and efficient means of solving a legal problem without human assistance or it can be used to leverage the skills of an attorney or paralegal by increasing productivity and lower costs.  Digital legal solutions also increase access to the legal system for individuals who cannot afford the full legal services of an attorney.
  
  Together with Epoq in the UK, our award-winning technology now supports the delivery of digital legal solutions to over 1 million subscribers worldwide.

Radical changes are afoot in the legal services industry, both in the U.S. and in the U.K.  In the US, the self-help market for digital legal solutions is growing at a rapid pace and law firms, both large and small, are searching for new, cost-effective ways to deliver legal services to their clients.  Corporate legal departments are also searching for new ways to deliver legal services as a means to cut costs and increase productivity within the framework of reduced budgets.  U.S. banks, insurance companies, and financial institutions are also searching for ways to offering legal solutions as an added value for their customers.

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Since 1994, Epoq has developed advanced technology, building know-how and creating content to deliver legal solutions for use by the public, small business organizations, non-profit and governmental agencies.  By pushing the boundaries of delivery, Epoq has been a pioneer in the inevitable changes taking place in the legal services industry.

We provide digital legal solutions for a variety of organizations and institutions. We provide the technology foundation that enables an organization, whether a law firm or financial institutions, to offer value-added legal solutions to their customers and clients, enhancing their brand with our technology operating inside and in the background. These organizational types include:

• Pre-paid legal insurers to assist them in economically delivering legal services to employees.
• Non-profit organizations looking to provide legal solutions to their members.
• Financial institutions such as banks, credit card companies, and insurance companies who wish to offer legal solutions to their customers as part of a comprehensive array of services.
• State and local federally-funded legal service agencies who wish to provide low-cost, fixed-cost or free legal solutions to people of moderate means.
• Law firms that are interested in new delivery systems for legal services. See new DirectLaw Web Service.
• Corporate legal departments seeking a more effective means of delivering legal services to their internal middle management clients.
• Courts that wish to provide interactive legal forms directly to the public as a component of a consumer-friendly court strategy initiative.
• Government agencies that wish to provide interactive legal forms to the public.