1 January 2009 - 23:092008 Recap
2008 has been an interesting year for Legal Bytes/Brainstorm. It started with our presentation of BriefCase, our flagship application, the most user friendly and cost effective notes of evidence software, to the then President of the Court of Appeal, The Right Honourable Justice Tan Sri Zaki (now the Chief Justice) at his office in the Palace of Justice, Putrajaya. We did a presentation before him, the then Chief Judge of Malaya (now the President of the Court of Appeal) The Riht Honourable Justice Tan Sri Alauddin, and some other judges from the Federal and High Court. They were impressed with the application and wanted us to have a trial run at the KL High Court.
Judges listening attentively to Azizi’s presentation
Azizi presenting
Jourdein manning the application

So immediately after Chinese New Year break we had our first trial run of BriefCase at the KL Court complex. Although they were few hiccups during the week — our transcriber were not yet properly trained and there a few bugs in the app — the judges that had the chance to use BriefCase were impressed by the software. Hence we were asked to run a pilot project for 3 months. And during these 3 months, the judiciary is calling a few other companies to introduce their own system. So we had competitors which made it even more fun.
Azizi and Azmir setting up the audio recording during the first day of trial run
Falah briefing our first transcriber Aidil on BriefCase
4 systems were tried out during the three month stint and at the end the almost unanimously favoured BriefCase. In our final presentation to the then Chief Justice, The Right Honourable Justice Tun Abdul Hamid, he was very impressed with BriefCase’s performance.
Our transcriber, Ramlah demonstrating BriefCase to the two higest judicial officers in the country
Tan Sri Zaki and Tun Hamid following the trial with BriefCase
Azizi explaining about BriefCase
Tan Sri Zaki impressed with BriefCase
We also had the a group of visitors from UAE coming over to see our court systems. And fortunately for us, the court officials brought them to the courts equipped with BriefCase and we were asked to demo to the representatives from UAE. The UAE reps were very impressed by Legal Bytes in general and BriefCase in particular — especially the fact that the whole company consist of under 30’s. We may be young, but we are good.
Azizi preparing to demo BriefCase to the Arabs

Unfortunately for us, although we emerged as the best system, due to reasons which are part political and part economical, BriefCase is yet to be implemented in our courts. We are still negotiating with the government on the implementation of the system.
Moving office
In 2008, we also moved to a new office from Jalan Ipoh to Jalan Gombak. The new office looks really cool with a fire place and creepers all over the walls.

Azri and Superdeen at the new office

Jourdein at our new office

This year also we split our operations into two — Legal Bytes for marketing of our legal applications and solutions; and Brainstorm, a place where great minds brainstorms and turns great ideas into great products. At Brainstorm we wil be producing websites and web apps as well as mobile apps.
Well we had a great year in 2008; a lot of new experiences learnt and we believe that 2009 will be an even greater year for us. Here are some other photos of what we did in 2008.

Brainstorming session with Chris Hong on the development of BriefCase 2.0
Jourdein’s birthday celebration
The pilot project team: from left, Jourdein, Ramlah, Christina, Safiyyah, Alia, Superdeen and Azri. Missing from the photo, Azizi (photographer)


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Our CTO working hard to finish up BriefCase 2.0 


