Legal Enterprise Collaboration (LEC)
SUMMIT, developed by doeLEGAL, is a collaborative platform that enables corporate legal departments, corporate business units and their law firms and vendors to exchange and communicate in a highly intuitive and secure environment. The Summit platform then became the application infrastructure from which all of doeLEGAL's other products have been developed.
Built from Summit, doeASCENT is a collaborative spend and matter management technology that allows for features and functions to be configured, secured and distributed in ways that allow legal enterprises, corporate legal departments, business units or law firms and vendors, to seamlessly work with its partners through a single shared interface. This shared work environment allows for the secure distribution of both content and functionality from internal systems to the collaborative environment.
Sample existing collaborative functionality delivered through ASCENT:
- Ability to distribute select matter views and functionality to discreet internal work groups, law firms, business units outside of legal, and others. This secure distributed and limited access allows the law department to turn over discreet pieces of functionality and/or views to non-law department users. Although any functionality, data and reports available to law department users can be distributed to any non-law department personnel, some of the more typical distributed functionality includes:
- Law firms required to enter matter updates on a regular basis. Reminders for updates are either calendared for law firms or issued as task reminders to law firms. Updates when made can be alerted to managing in-house attorneys for review
- Ability for law firms to upload documents associated with matters. These documents can be version controlled and are associated with a matter or matters. In-house users and law firm users can then collaborate around document progression and finalization
- Ability for business units, law firms and internal users, "on a user-by-user basis" to either (a) receive scheduled reports and dashboard views via email, or (b) to access business unit analytics particular to that individual. Information can be secured down to the individual field level and security can be based on the context within which an individual is operating.
- Calendar items, tasks, reminders and alerts are distributed via your corporate email application and synched routinely
- Law firms manage things such as budgets, time keepers, accruals and more with alerts, workflow for review and approvals going to those within the law department assigned to the matter or task type
- In addition to ASCENT's ability to allow the law department to distribute views and functionality, thereby sharing the responsibility for management of matters, cases, projects, etc., clients can choose to establish discreet "Team Rooms" via the doeSummit collaborative portal. Summit allows for:
- A single point of entry by in-house users, law firms, business units, partners, and others to access information, functionality, views as well as access to other applications used alone or in collaboration with others, including
- Spend management
- Matter management
- Litigation management
- Time and billing systems
- IP management
- Instant messaging
- Document assembly
- Audio and video conferencing
- News, events, updates
- and more
- Team Rooms can be set up for any number of unique scenarios including different functionality, views, and collaborative partners based on, for example:
- Law department work groups
- Individual matters/cases/litigation
- Individual transactions (E.g. M&A)
- Individual law department relationships, such as
- Department/law firm
- Department/ business unit
- Department/functional area
In addition to this existing collaborative functionality, doeSummit will soon deliver additional collaborative functionality to mobile devices (some of which is available now) and social networking applications which can be initiated and secured based on the law department's collaborative requirements
SUMMIT...Collaborative Innovation simplified!
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Click Here to download a K2 overview spec sheet regarding Litigation Support & e-Discovery
Click Here to download a ASCENT overview spec sheet regarding Legal Spend Management
