ABOUT XERDICT

Xerdict Group LLC is a subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, one of America’s preeminent litigation and trial law firms.  As part of Sedgwick’s focus on efficiency, productivity, and client service, Xerdict Group was founded in 2004 to offer outstanding litigation support technology including collaboration software products such as CaseEnsemble and ProjectEnsemble.  

Our vision is to provide a technology and services suite which allows our clients to move towards a paperless-office environment, improves their ability to manage cases and develop new business, and cuts client expenses by reducing the need to store, mail, fax, locate and retrieve documents and other paperwork,
 
MANAGEMENT TEAM

The Xerdict Group management philosophy is to develop a partnership between business and technical organizations.   Accordingly, top-flight attorneys and technology leaders with extensive experience using and developing collaboration systems are blended into a single, integrated management unit.  This unit is focused on delivering solutions that meet our client’s business requirements while using best-in-breed litigation support technologies to develop and operating our systems.   

More information on our management team is available upon request.

ABOUT SEDGWICK

Xerdict Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, and maintains and upholds the same values and principals as our parent. 

Sedgwick believes that the best practice is also the most cost-effective. When a superior team of lawyers has the resources of a veteran, sophisticated firm, the value to the client far exceeds the amount of the bill. We call this the "The Sedgwick Edge".   Xerdict strives to deliver the same value with their technology-based services that Sedgwick delivers to legal clients.

Historically, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold was founded in San Francisco in 1933 as the law firm of Keith & Creede.  Sedgwick rapidly evolved to become a leading trial firm in Northern California.

The 1950s represented the emergence of the first multi-plaintiff consumer litigation. Sedgwick was chosen to represent Cutter Laboratories in the polio vaccine lawsuits which filled the courtrooms during most of the 1950s. The current name of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold was adopted in 1959.

During the 1960s and 70s, multi-plaintiff litigation led to mass tort litigation involving class actions, and multi-district and market share litigation. Sedgwick was repeatedly selected as lead counsel to represent local, regional and national interests in these cases. In 1977, Sedgwick opened a Los Angeles office in order to serve an expanding Southern California client base.

The 1980s saw rapid expansion of the firm, fueled by that decade's economic boom and an increasingly complex business and legal environment. New practice areas were added to complement Sedgwick’s traditional general litigation practice, including product liability, toxic tort, drug and medical device litigation, construction, environmental, employment, entertainment, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance and intellectual property law.

 In February of 1985, Sedgwick’s New York office was opened to serve clients in the areas of fidelity and surety law and pharmaceutical product liability litigation. Later in the decade, as insurance and corporate markets became increasingly global in nature, offices were opened in London, England, and Zurich, Switzerland. In 1988, Sedgwick expanded its Southern California presence with a new office in Orange County. A decade of growth was rounded out by the opening of an office in Chicago in December, 1989.

During the 1990s, Sedgwick continued to expand -- both geographically and statistically. By the end of 1998, the firm numbered 270 attorneys, up from 100 in 1985. The growth has been organic, rather than by merger. Lateral partner additions have been primarily client driven.

In July 2000, Sedgwick added a Paris office to complement our European practice. The Sedgwick .office in Newark, New Jersey, which is also the base of the Xerdict Group,  opened in January 2001 to provide complex class action and mass tort litigation services for industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical clients. 2001 was also marked by Sedgwick’s entry into the Dallas market. The Dallas office brings Sedgwick's market presence to ten offices worldwide and continues the firm’s expansion of commercial and complex litigation services.