OUR MISSION:
To provide lawyers and their support staff with a highly confidential, innovative, expeditious,
sensible, fair and cost effective means for acquiring and sharing the evidence needed to bring their
respective clients' legal actions to resolution.
We make justice more manageable... ™
WHAT WE DO:
Records Acquisition Services, Inc. (RAS) is a completely neutral, third-party litigation support
service that may be established in a legal action as an automatic cost- and information-sharing
mechanism through which any and all parties to the action may choose to retrieve, store and
share copies of a wide variety of discoverable items,including,
but certainly not limited to, the following:
- Medical clinical records
- Medical billing records
- Radiographic images
- Employment records
- School records
- Social Security records
- Federal and state tax records
COMPANY PROFILE
RAS was founded in May 2004 by
John B.
Barber, a native Tennessean with over seven years of experience in civil litigation as an insurance defense
paralegal. A graduate of both
Belmont University
(BA - religion and philosophy) and
Baylor University
(MA - political science), John's professional life has been dedicated to making the process of litigation as
seamless as possible for trial lawyers - most recently as a paralegal with
Arnett, Draper and Hagood of Knoxville.
During his time with
Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge,
P.C., the second largest medical malpractice insurance defense firm in the state of Michigan, John developed a
particular specialty in the procurement of medical information for discovery purposes by being
actively involved in that firm's efforts to modify their records acquisition and expert retention
protocols to comply with the newly-enacted federal privacy rules (HIPAA Privacy Rules). With John as its
Chief Executive Officer, Records Acquisition Services, Inc. is uniquely positioned to offer a professional service
that truly makes the pursuit of justice more manageable for its advocates.