Smart data, intelligently delivered.

How Corporate Legal is rethinking data and boosting legal performance.

Data proliferation. Legal analytics.

Data-driven everything.Corporate Legal faces growing business challenges. On one hand, these’s so much more data, in more formats, from more sources. This adds complexity to how You analyze data and handle compliance and security risks. On the other hand, there’s pressure to do more with less, requiring better tracking and transparency into expenses. This comes as departments are managing new and different sources of legal services, which adds even more complexity.

This heightened demand for information requires data, and lots of it. The need to access and analyze rapidly increasing volumes of data isn’t new. It has always Been at the heart of how law is practiced. But with so much data now available, the risk of making decisions based on incomplete information continues to rise.

In many ways, an inability to harness data for decision making can quickly become a legal liability. What’s the risk? Should you litigate? Can you improve your business performance? Is it worth it? Corporate Legal needs to reconsider what data can do for their business — and how legal analytics hold the key to achieving much-needed collaboration, clarity, and compliance in a more cost-focused world.

Effective data use will make the difference.

According to Gartner, “Legal departments that use analytics to inform their decision making exhibit higher work quality, reduced litigation cost, and lower spending.”1 Yet, most of today’s Corporate Legal departments still employ myriad manual processes and disparate data solutions. Few use legal analytics and most utilize only a fraction of their data.

What makes data “smart”?

Data becomes smart when it’s transformed into the insights required to propel a business forward. For Corporate Legal, this means quick access to everything from high-level summaries to granular details on open matters; even financial reporting, like aging reports on open invoices. When your data is smart, it supports and informs your decisions. It gives your team more control over cases and costs. This is what we call “Smart data.”

Rather than the bits and bytes trapped in different applications and documents, smart data provides a single reference point, making it easy to analyze and share information securely— across the entire legal team, in-house staff, business-unit reps, and outside counsel. The result: Greater transparency, efficiency, and insight.

“Intelligent delivery” makes smart data actionable.

Creating smart data is only half the battle. You also must make the smart data available to everyone on the team, where they are, when they need it, in the optimal format for their individual Needs.

Intelligent delivery makes smart data comprehensive, accurate, and actionable. It’s time for a mind shift: You shouldn’t have to change the way you work in order to create and use your smart data. Although you may already rely on a legal information management solution, it may not accommodate the ways your
department needs to work.

Truly intelligent delivery enables any user to determine what smart data they need and how they will receive it — all within access parameters you specify. In other words, intelligent delivery serves up timely information related to all matters in one place, so teams can quickly compare matter, spend, and law-firm data through a single, easily-consumable view.

Embrace the future.

Research from Gartner shows that nearly 50% of legal departments intend to use analytics for process improvement, and more than a third for legal analysis.4
Drive your team forward by implementing the processes and technologies that enable smart data, intelligently delivered. Develop a comprehensive, practical long-term plan beginning with your end goals in mind. Align your technology and process choices around your objectives. Ensure that your providers offer the Flexibility you need to support your business as it changes and grows. These strategies will lay the foundation for process improvements, powerful legal analysis, and maturing your legal department across the full range of CLOC competencies.

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doeLEGAL shows how legal teams could rethink their data to boost legal performance by 65% at Legaltech 2019 in NYC.

Learn more about “Smart data, intelligently delivered.” at booth #1014

Wilmington, DE: doeLEGAL, the premier legal service provider of advanced information management tools giving corporate law departments and law firms a better way to rethink their data and boost legal performance, exhibits at ALM’s #Legalweek19 Legaltech 2019 show in New York City on January 29-31. The application of their new technology solutions enables high-performing legal teams to be more effective with their data and make timely decisions.

“Clients share with us how ASCENT enterprise legal management creates significant opportunities to reduce workloads by 50%, improve overall department efficiency by up to 65%, and intelligently deliver real-time views of their entire business on one screen,” said Tom Russo, president & CEO, doeLEGAL.  “These all speak to the extreme value received and that drives us to continually advance the solution.”

doeLEGAL also provides expert eDiscovery Managed Services using the best technology available to create a completely integrated process that ensures defensible chain-of-custody, faster data processing, and more accurate results which saves organizations as much as 50% in total litigation expenses.

To set up your private meeting or solution demonstration at Legaltech 2019, visit https://www.doelegal.com/schedule-your-legaltech-meeting/.

Visitors at booth #1014 will experience their corporate magician who is ready to entertain Legaltech attendees with his unique illusions and card tricks as well as a candy station catering to anyone’s sweet-tooth. Visitors will also be able to register for “smart technology” door prizes drawn each day at the booth.

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Time Tracker Legal Software Automation Improves Law Firm Efficiency and Success

New Jersey, NY – January 25, 2019 – The 2018 Clio Industry Report asked over 70,000 legal professionals what goals define their firm’s success and 84% placed revenue at the top of the list. Improving the firm’s operational efficiency came in just below at 80%. Law firms also consistently struggle to dedicate time to billable work. In an average 8-hour workday, utilization rates (the number of billable hours worked divided by the number of hours in a day) was just 30%; a mere 2.4 hours of the 8 hours worked. When you factor in the number of billable hours that don’t get reflected on an invoice and the amounts which never get paid, the average lawyer earns just 1.6 hours in billable work each day. This data suggests strongly the crucial need for improved efficiency and automation to increase revenues and prevent serious profitability issues.

 

eBillity’s Time Tracker Legal software enables law firms to automate their time tracking, expenses and billing. The mobile app allows the user to set up push notifications to remind them to track time, and has multi-timers that can automatically track their time by different clients with a push of a button. This automation alone can reduce administration time by up to 10+ hours per month, and by tracking time down to the second, billable hours have proven to increase by up to 20%.

 

Dennis Murphy from Hill Law Firm one of eBillity customers states, “my experience with Time Tracker over the past five years has been strongly favorable. I like that I can track my time not only by date but also across matters. The report function allows me to see how much time has been billed to each matter at any given period.” 

 

Time Tracker’s free apps for Outlook and Windows 10 allow the user to convert emails and calendar events into time entries and work offline. The product also connects with Apps like IFTTT and Zapier to automate repetitive tasks. Law firms can also automate expense tracking by taking a photo of their receipt and attaching it to an entry and then syncing it with their accounting software for reimbursement and client invoicing.

 

The Industry Report also indicates that clients are wanting the ability to check online the number of hours spent on their case, with 50% saying they’re more likely to hire a lawyer who takes electronic payments, 47% more likely to hire a lawyer who accepts automated payments, and 40% saying they would never hire a lawyer who didn’t take debit or credit cards. With Time Tracker law firms can turn their time and expense entries into branded client invoices in seconds, connect their account to Stripe to have payment links automatically added to invoices for immediate online payment. Clients are also able to login to their client portal and view completed work, outstanding invoices and pay bills online.

 

To complete the time, expense and billing cycle there are also apps that allow firms to automate their accounts receivable. Invoice Tracker by eBillity is an example of one that connects with accounting platforms and practice management software like Clio and Thomson Reuters Time and Billing to improve cash flow by getting firms paid faster. Invoice Tracker sends automatic invoice reminders, accepts online payments and reconciles once payments are made.

 

“Being able to showcase our time tracking software specifically built for law firms is exciting for our team, and we look forward to showing legal professionals how automation can improve their law firm’s bottom line, says Douglas Dweck, COO and Co Founder.”

 

eBillity will be there at Booth 311 come by to say hi and learn how to automate time tracking, invoices and expenses from anywhere, on any device, with Time Tracker. Our software includes legal friendly features built right in, such as UTBMS patent billing codes, trust accounting, 4-click invoicing, LSS realization reports, and a conflict checker. We also offer real-time security backups, GDPR, US-EU privacy compliance, and integrations with Clio, Xero, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Gusto, ADP, and SAP Concur. Also ask us how you can get a free subscription to Invoice Tracker and automate your invoice reminders to get paid faster.

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Compiled (formerly Compiled Services), the developers of litigation support and e-discovery software ReadySuite, announces the release of the latest version of the software with a new “bridge” feature that allows users to retrieve information from the CloudNine™ LAW™ e-discovery platform and import it into Relativity, as well as retrieve field data from Relativity and overlay the data into LAW. This latest version of ReadySuite also offers new features that will save time and improve e-discovery processes for users.

“CloudNine needed a way for our users to easily import document data, including metadata fields, native files, text files, and image files from data processed in LAW directly into Relativity. We also needed a sync operation to export details like document coding, metadata, tag data, and document files, from Relativity into LAW,” says Brad Jenkins, CEO of CloudNine. “The experts at Compiled have a reputation for developing tools to accommodate specific e-discovery needs and were able to quickly develop and deploy the solution.”

Other new features of this latest version of ReadySuite include a new advanced script editor, with code completion and hint capabilities, that makes it easier for users to write their own scripts to address specific workflow needs. The release also adds nine new prebuilt e-discovery scripts.

“ReadySuite is becoming the go-to tool for law firms and e-discovery providers to handle e-discovery workflows,” says Justin Blessing, founder and CEO of Compiled. “We’ve developed the software to be a neutral tool to integrate e-discovery platforms and were able to quickly deploy the latest version that specifically addresses CloudNine’s integration needs.”

Representatives of Compiled will be at booth #335 at Legalweek, January 29 – 31, to demonstrate the many features of ReadySuite.

ReadySuite is specialized software that allows users an additional measure of quality control when it comes to producing documents for e-discovery. Its features help law firms, government organizations and e-discovery service providers prevent accidental disclosure of redacted documents or those documents that are designated as attorney/client privileged.

About Compiled

Since 2009, Compiled has created specialized software tools to aid in meeting tight litigation deadlines while adhering to strict quality standards. ReadySuite, the bundled suite of these tools, gives nontechnical and technical e-discovery professionals the ability to perform a number of quality control, load file manipulation and image processing steps to data involved in litigation or regulatory matters. Clients include law firms, e-discovery service providers and in-house legal teams. More information can be found at http://www.compiled.com/.

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Murphy brings in-depth experience helping customers resolve challenges preserving dynamic web content for ediscovery and compliance.

New York, NY (January 15, 2019) – Hanzo, the company known for its pioneering technology in dynamic web archiving for compliance and ediscovery professionals, today announced the appointment of James Murphy as the Vice President of Product. He will bring a customer-centric approach to identifying market needs and guide the direction of product development to support Hanzo’s rapid growth while delighting customers.

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As VP of Product, Murphy is responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, planning, and execution working closely with development, sales, marketing, and operations to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction. During the last five years, Jim has served as the Director of Service Delivery for Hanzo and has more than 19 years of experience working within litigation support, information technology, ediscovery and web archiving. Previous to Hanzo, he served as the Director of Professional Services/Operations Engineering with the Merrill Corporation and has held various roles in technical support, business information technology, and solutions architecture.

 

“Jim pairs extensive experience in supporting ediscovery and compliance with first-hand knowledge of Hanzo’s technology and customer base, making him ideally positioned to evolve the product roadmap towards the next generation of AI-based automation and dynamic content review and analysis,” said Denis Maurin, Chief Technology Officer, Hanzo. “His innovative and customer-centric approach, along with his commitment to results will enable Hanzo to deliver the right products to serve real-world market challenges.”

 

Visit Hanzo during Legalweek at the Legaltech Tradeshow Booth #2301, from January 29 – 31, 2019 at the New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10019. You can schedule a meeting with James Murphy here.

 

ABOUT HANZO

Hanzo is solving the single biggest challenge in above-board compliance and litigation today— contextual investigation, capture, and preservation of dynamic web content. Through one sophisticated platform, we capture and preserve team messaging data, social media engagement, and interactive web content then replicate it in legally-defensible native format for analysis and review. Launched in 2009, Hanzo serves government agencies, enterprises, and top law firms across the globe. Learn more at hanzo.co

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Hanzo Challenges the eDiscovery and Compliance Industries to “Keep Data Dynamic” with Launch of New Platform

 

Hanzo Dynamic Archive elevates the standard of evidence in the age of dynamic data with trailblazing technology that empowers legal teams to proactively manage eDiscovery and mitigate compliance risk.

 

New York, NY (January 22, 2019) –  In the age of dynamic data, business communications are increasingly collaborative, social, personalized and interactive.  Internal and external communications at modern corporations are fast-paced, interactive and dynamic in nature and the data footprint they leave is difficult to collect in a defensible manner.  Hanzo, the company known for its pioneering technology in dynamic web archiving, today announced Hanzo Dynamic Archive to help organizations address the modern challenges and risks that dynamic data presents ediscovery and compliance teams.  

 

Hanzo Dynamic Archive is a powerful technology platform designed to empower corporate legal professionals to securely investigate, capture, review, and produce electronic communications as part of ediscovery and regulatory compliance workflows.

 

“Capturing dynamic content and converting this data to static pdf’s is outdated. It’s simply not good enough from an evidentiary and authenticity perspective because you lose the most important information,” said Kevin Gibson, CEO, Hanzo. “The power of native format is in the fidelity and the context of the record. With Hanzo Dynamic Archive, we are giving organizations the ability to securely capture fully interactive web content and manage it through their workflows to address their legal and regulatory frustrations.”

 

Hanzo’s flexible and innovative platform lets users tailor their solution to meet their own specific legal and compliance requirements. Customers can leverage the following modular applications  within the Hanzo Dynamic Archive platform to mitigate digital and social media risks:

 

Hanzo Dynamic Investigator – Transforms the neverending web into actionable insight allowing organizations to efficiently identify, analyze, and present content from the internet.

 

Hanzo Hold – Empowers organizations to apply a legal hold to Slack data (with support for Google’s G-Suite and Microsoft Office 365 coming in 2019) and to adhere to data retention policies while meeting the duty to preserve.

 

Hanzo Dynamic Capture – Provides authenticity via the highest-fidelity, full context dynamic capture, archive, and preservation of web and social media content, and immutable retention that meets WORM storage standards.

 

Hanzo Dynamic Review – Streamlines legal workflows, and helps uncover hidden data by reviewing hard-to-collect data types in their native dynamic state, all from within Relativity.

 

Hanzo Professional Services – Expertise and support to help organizations get the most out of Hanzo.

 

Key benefits of Hanzo Dynamic Archive include:

 

  • The ability to defensibly capture, preserve, and manage dynamic web content via a single platform, from identification through presentation for ediscovery and compliance.

 

  • The power to keep data dynamic throughout its entire lifecycle, empowering users to uncover critical information and  get more compelling evidence

 

  • Metadata and audit trails that demonstrate defensible practices and immutable data authenticity.

 

  • Flexible technology that is configurable to satisfy a variety of unique use cases so that you can not only capture dynamic data but use it as well.

 

You can learn more about Hanzo Dynamic Archive by visiting Hanzo at the Legaltech Trade Show, Booth #2301, from January 29 – 31 at the New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10019. You can schedule a personalized meeting with the Hanzo team here or you can request a demo tailored to your interest.

 

About Hanzo

Hanzo is solving the single biggest challenge in legally-defensible compliance and litigation today— contextual investigation, capture, and preservation of dynamic web content.  Through the Hanzo Dynamic Archive platform, we investigate, hold, capture and preserve team messaging data, social media engagement, and interactive web content then replicate it in legally-defensible native format for analysis, review, and production.  Launched in 2009, Hanzo serves government agencies, enterprises, and top law firms across the globe. Learn more at hanzo.co

 

Contact

Sarena Regazzoni

Product Marketing Communications

Hanzo

503-407-4208

sarena@hanzo.co

 

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Casepoint eDiscovery undergoes a transformative upgrade thanks to the new Casepoint Platform, an entirely new legal technology platform optimized for enterprise-scale application development.

 

 Tysons, VA – January 23, 2019 – Casepoint, a leader in providing innovative eDiscovery solutions in a single, cloud-based platform, today announces two major legal technology developments: Casepoint eDiscovery has undergone a transformative upgrade, bolstered by 10 years of eDiscovery experience and client feedback, and it is the preeminent application built upon the new Casepoint Platform. Casepoint Platform is an innovative technology platform that law firms and legal departments can use to integrate a full range of enterprise applications, documents, legal data, and workflows, into a single flexible platform. With the unveiling of the eDiscovery application rebuilt on the new platform, legal organizations now have the option to create and manage technology to meet their own specifications, from database setup to data processing and all the way through to the end of discovery. Casepoint will unveil both products at Legalweek New York, which takes place January 28–31, 2019.

Casepoint eDiscovery is a full-spectrum eDiscovery solution that features state-of-the-art tools for cloud-based collections, processing, culling, review, and highly customizable productions. It also offers built-in artificial intelligence and analytics that are the most robust in the industry, with advanced tools for TAR 1.0 and TAR 2.0, early case assessment (ECA), and advanced data visualization tools. All customers get the complete package – there are no features to turn on or pay for later. With Casepoint eDiscovery, legal teams can complete discovery projects faster, at a lower cost, and with greater accuracy using a single, integrated, easy-to-use tool.

Casepoint eDiscovery is also an infinitely scalable private cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution capable of handling millions of documents, multiple terabytes of data, thousands of legal matters, and unlimited numbers of users. Pricing has been structured for maximum transparency, without upsells or user fees. Security is enforced at the company, data center, and application levels, and features military-grade AES 256-bit encryption. Data centers are fully replicated for business continuity.

“Our eDiscovery technology was already the fastest in the industry, and we’ve now doubled that speed and created an entirely new platform redesigned from the ground up to meet clients’ most pressing needs,” said Vishal Rajpara, Casepoint’s Chief Technology Officer. “We are confident Casepoint eDiscovery is the best, most thoroughly integrated, and comprehensive solution in the marketplace. We’ve designed our technology to put customers in control. With Casepoint Platform our customers will have access to an incredibly flexible platform that allows them to easily manage matters, tasks and align internal and external users with user-controlled administration. While we know most of our existing customers will continue to request full service from the dedicated delivery teams and project managers they have come to know and trust, we are excited to offer self-service options as well, and everything in between.”

Attendees at Legalweek will also have the opportunity to demo Casepoint Platform, a fully integrated web-based ecosystem that has been in development for two years. Casepoint Platform is an enterprise-scale application development and deployment environment built upon web APIs and an N+1 scalable architecture. Casepoint eDiscovery runs on Casepoint Platform, and eDiscovery users will feel the benefits immediately. The new platform has been re-engineered to double processing speeds and provide users of the interface with near-instantaneous speed. Law firms and legal departments will have the option to customize the technology to meet their own specifications from database set up to data processing and all the way through to the end of discovery, without incurring extra consulting fees.

“Casepoint Platform is the foundation of Casepoint’s Law 3.0 vision,” said Haresh Bhungalia, Casepoint’s Chief Executive Officer. “Law firms and legal departments will use this technology to customize and integrate the entire spectrum of legal workflows, and this will allow them to dramatically streamline operations, control costs at every level, and identify and monitor key performance indicators unique to their organization.”

For information about switching to Casepoint from any platform, please click here. To schedule a meeting at LegalWeek, click here. To learn more about Casepoint events and activities at booth 134 at Legalweek 2019 in New York, click here.

 

About Casepoint

Casepoint empowers legal departments, law firms, and public agencies by providing smarter legal technology combined with award-winning client service. Casepoint eDiscovery is the fast, enterprise class, and next-generation eDiscovery suite from Casepoint, based on more than 10 years of innovation in the industry. It is built upon Casepoint Platform, a highly scalable, secure, and configurable application environment that meets the demands of sophisticated clients within eDiscovery and beyond. Whether SaaS, on prem, or hybrid, Casepoint eDiscovery features cloud collections, data processing, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, review, and productions – all in an easy-to-use web interface. Casepoint customers benefit from the ability to support sophisticated workflows across millions of documents and hundreds of users, with custom reporting and data management tools built-in. Simple, elegant, and intuitive, Casepoint represents the next generation of litigation technology that will empower your global legal team. For more information, go to www.casepoint.com.

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Plat4orm PR
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See a 90% reduction in paperwork and a 25% improvement in productivity

 

Automates your accounts receivable. Free for One-Year.

 

Your small or medium-sized firm can suffer quickly, with long-lasting repercussions, if even one payment is missed. Your cash flow depends on a steady stream of reliable payments so when do you hire a collection agency to deal with your outstanding invoices? What sorts of things should you be doing before that step is even considered?

 

Before you decide to go ahead and look to outside help, it is important to consider whether or not you’ve taken all the necessary steps within your power to collect those overdue payments. This could include things like sending invoice reminders, making phone calls, or sending letters to your client with an increasingly firm tone. But what happens to your billable hours and your client relationships as a result of these manual methods?

 

Debt collection is never an enjoyable part of business, but it is necessary for your financial health. It’s hard to know when to tow the line, and when you’re being too firm. Not to mention the time and effort that goes into drafting each email, trying to remember when you need to follow-up and having no idea if they even opened and read your email.

 

Thankfully there are now products that can integrate with your billing software to automate your accounts receivable while maintaining a personal and professional appearance. Products like Invoice Tracker automate your invoice collection process with automated invoice reminder emails, detailed AR reporting, and instant online payment and accounting reconciliation options.

 

Keeping track of your invoicing is essential to increase both profits and billable hours in your law firm. Invoice Tracker includes everything you need to keep your cash flowing, while ensuring that all of your data is being accurately tracked and recorded. If your average billable hours in a day only adds up to 29% of your time, your firm needs the real-time insights, automated and customizable email reminders, and solid invoice collection software that Invoice Tracker offers.

 

Get ready to see a 90% reduction in paperwork for your accounts receivables and a 25% improvement in productivity by switching your invoicing over to an automated system. Sync with Clio, Thomson Reuters Time & Billing, QuickBooks, Xero or eBillity’s Time Tracker +Legal, and join legal professionals worldwide who are already benefiting from faster payments, and better client relationships.

 

Get started today with a FREE one year subscription to Invoice Tracker. Valued up to $700! Hurry offer ends Feb 20, 1019. Use promo code LegalWeek when you sign up.

 

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