Digital Notary® Service Ensures Security to Electronically Signed realLegal.com e-transcripts
RESTON, VA, and DENVER, CO-- June 28, 2000 -- Surety, Inc, the leading provider of digital notarization services, and realLegal.com, a law.com company and the leader in virtual transcript applications for the legal industry, today announced an agreement that will incorporate Surety\'s Digital Notary® Service in realLegal.com\'s Electronic Transcript Signature Service for e-transcript™. The Digital Notary Service utilized in the electronic signing of an e-transcript will assist realLegal.com\'s users in proving the integrity of their court or deposition transcript.
The agreement calls for realLegal.com to use Digital Notary Service within e-transcript\'s new Electronic Transcript Signature technology announced on June 20 at the LegalTech trade show in Los Angeles.
realLegal.com\'s new Electronic Transcript Signature technology replaces the traditional paper-based methods of the court reporter signing the certification page of a trial or deposition transcript. realLegal.com Electronic Transcript Signatures are integrated with realLegal.com\'s e-transcript Manager 3.5, the court reporting market standard in digital transcript formatting and delivery.
Electronic Transcript Signatures use Surety, Inc\'s patented digital notary technology to ensure transcript validity by detecting if the e-transcript has been tampered with after it has been signed or during transit. Digital Notary Service ensures the transcript authenticity by verifying the content of the transcript, the exact date and time when it was signed, and who signed the transcript.
\"The launch of Electronic Transcript Signature within e-transcript Manager 3.5 makes Surety\'s Digital Notary Service available and easy-to-use for court reporters across the country,\" said Barry Libenson, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Surety, Inc. \"We are excited that realLegal.com will make our state-of-the-art digital security service readily available to the the legal industry, including courts, litigators and court reporting firms.\"
\"There are numerous technological elements that come together to create electronic signatures for trial and deposition transcripts,\" said realLegal.com President Marty Steinberg. \"While we developed the majority of the technology in house, we determined that for the verification process, it was important to use the state-of-the-art technology offered by Surety.\"
About Digital Notary Service
Digital Notary Service notarizes any digital content by creating a small digital fingerprint of the target data and sending it to Surety, Inc to be registered and timestamped. A unique Digital Notary Record is then sent back to the requesting client for later use in validating the notarization. Individuals, companies and governments using Surety\'s Digital Notary Service can be assured their proprietary data is protected because a digital fingerprint is a one-way identifier-no part of the original data record or file can be reconstructed from its fingerprint.
Offering unprecedented and irrefutable record security, Digital Notary Service protects electronic records in legal settings; reliably dates inventions to establish intellectual property rights; guarantees tamperproof records for regulatory compliance; prevents insider fraud, and; validates the authenticity of electronic records created by e-commerce transactions.
About realLegal.com
Denver-based realLegal.com (formerly PubNETics), a law.com company, offers technology solutions for the legal arena, including courts, litigators and the $5.5 billion court reporting industry. As the creator and definitive expert in digital transcripts, realLegal.com offers a host of transcript-related products and services based on its industry standard product, e-transcript™.
These include e-brief™, hyperlinked briefs on CD-ROM for attorneys\' submission and courts\' review of a case; e-transcript binder™ for management of multiple e-transcripts; e-transcript view binder, allowing court reporters to provide their clients with complete e-transcript and exhibit review on CD-ROM; and Electronic Transcript Signatures, for Web-based delivery of secure, accurate, encrypted and certified e-transcripts.
In addition to its desktop services, realLegal.com has also established itself as a leading ASP for the legal industry, offering e-transcript Internet™ for the online creation of e-transcripts; the creation and hosting of Deposition Management Systems for court reporting firms\' storage and sale of e-transcripts; Court Transcript Management Systems for centralized, e-commerce-enabled court transcript systems; and the creation of unique Web sites for the dissemination of trial e-transcripts to the media and the public. Further information about the company and its services can be found at http://www.reallegal.com.
Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2000