History

 

ILS Technologies was founded in 2004, but our roots in the field of litigation technology run far deeper. ILS Founder William Hooper, a programmer by trade, began developing innovative tools for complex litigation during the historic Exxon Valdez Alaskan oil spill trial in the early 1990’s. Upon creating a sophisticated trial presentation solution for that case, Hooper became the technical lead on many subsequent trials involving other major oil and gas companies on joint defenses against the state of Alaska.

Soon after Hooper was asked by Exxon to develop new programs to process and host electronic data used for litigation matters. The request led to the development of an unprecedented document review tool – EDGE – that has since become the primary review tool of one of the nation’s top four auditing firms, as well as many Fortune 500 corporations and top law firms throughout the United States.
Hooper has worked on key cases like those of Enron and the Exxon/Mobil merger where scale was paramount to their success. In 2004, with an ear to the common complaints of many of the firms in Houston, Hooper founded Innovative Litigation Services and set out to create an EDD system that was fast, innovative and cost efficient.

With an elite team of developers and executives and a host of large cases under our belt, ILS Technologies has become a premier litigation services company, providing electronic document management solutions for corporations and the legal industry. In 2004 along, our first year in business, ILS processed and produced more than 15 million documents of electronic data for some of the top and most prestigious law firms and corporations in the United States. In our second year, we processed more than15 million documents per month, for the same purposes and with the same staff.

Today ILS Technologies is a bona fide industry leader, highly regarded for our speed and accuracy. With 500+ individual cases processed, ILS creates significant value through automation and streamlining, all at a much lower cost to clients than is available anywhere else.