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Best Authority® Premium and Light Edition Licensing
This is an informal summary of Best Authority® Licensing and Pricing. The exact terms of the license are contained in the Best Authority® End User License Agreement (EULA).
Best Authority is licensed as a permanent site license. There is one license per organization, based on the total number of litigators and appellate attorneys. This may include attorneys in departments other than litigation -- such as labor, intellectual property, etc., and under certain circumstances, paralegals doing attorney-like work.
Best AuthorityŽ is not licensed based on the number of PCs on which it is installed, nor on the number of users.
Once your organization has purchased the required license, Best Authority® may be installed on any number of PCs, and run by any member of your firm or its staff. In addition, it may be used without charge for certain de minimis purposes (for example: if a paralegal is preparing a table of authorities for a class he or she is taking at law school, or a non-litigator attorney is filing an appeal pro bono.)
Best Authority® Light Edition Pricing
Best Authority® Light Edition is offered at a flat rate of $225 per litigator. There are no volume or other discounts. If you purchase Light Edition and subsequently upgrade to Premium Edition, you will be credited with 100% of your original purchase price. If you have any questions, or would like to receive a written quotation, please contact Patricia Meyer at pmeyer@levitjames.com or 703.771.1549.
Best Authority® Premium Edition Pricing
Pricing starts at $360 per litigator, with discounts based on the total number of litigators. The chart below shows the cost per litigator. If you have any questions, or would like to receive a written quotation, please contact Ian Levit at ianlevit@levitjames.com or 703.771.1549.
Number of Litigators |
Price per Litigator |
1 to 4 |
$360 |
5 to 9 |
$330 |
10 to 19 |
$300 |
20 to 49 |
$275 |
50 to 99 |
$250 |
100 to 249 |
$225 |
250 to 499 |
$200 |
500 to 999 |
$190 |
1000 + |
$180 |
Software Subscription Service
Levit & James, Inc. offers an annual Software Subscription Service (SSS) for all editions of Best Authority®.
SSS includes the following:
ˇ All software product updates at no charge
ˇ Technical Support
The price for SSS is 20% of the current volume-discounted list price of the product. Customers who let their SSS lapse for more than 30 days need to renew retroactively with a 50% penalty when they wish to upgrade the software.
Purchasing for Additional Litagators
When an organization adds litigators, it will need to update its license. If the number of new litigators is less than 20% of the existing total, the customer can pay for the updated license at the same time they renew the SSS. If the number of new litigators is greater than 20% of the existing total, the customer will need to purchase an updated license at the time of the increase.
If you have any questions, please contact Ian Levit at: ianlevit@levitjames.com, or 703.771.1549.