Counsel Management
Be confident and in full control when you hire, manage, and collaborate with outside counsel.
Solution In-depth
CounselLink™
With CounselLink, you can more effectively and efficiently manage your legal spend and matters while optimizing your outside counsel relationships. Through its flexible system configuration, CounselLink can address the unique requirements of both large and small law departments while our professional services and product support teams help your users maximize the benefits of the system.
Benefits
- Manage your matters and expenses with one solution that is configured to match your existing business process. With in-house and outside counsel working together in a single solution, you can get a summary of all matter information, quickly assess how your department is performing against its goals, and evaluate the effectiveness of your outside counsel.
- Control your legal costs through enhanced billing compliance and greater understanding of your legal spending. CounselLink allows you to capture and analyze 100% of your spending by converting detailed invoice entries from paper, or other non-LEDES formatted invoices, into a common electronic format. In addition, our unique SmartReview® technology provides an automatic, consistent review of all invoices against your company’s billing requirements. The ability to manage all of your legal spend in one system is critical to getting a comprehensive understanding of your legal department financials.
- Enhance your department’s performance by gaining greater visibility into key areas of your business. Our best-in-class, integrated, analytical reporting tools enable you to analyze the information captured in the CounselLink solution and track key performance and value metrics to make the necessary decisions to improve productivity and performance.
- Improve efficiency through automation. The CounselLink solution streamlines the invoice review, approval, and payment process by delivering a completely automated process. Our SmartReview technology reads, categorizes, and reviews the details of every charge on your outside counsel invoices. Automated workflows route the invoice to the appropriate reviewers. By reducing the time and effort required, your staff can focus on resolving legal issues rather than billing issues.
- Reduce risk and manage compliance by consolidating all your matter data into one system for greater transparency and accountability. CounselLink provides an objective, repeatable, and auditable invoice review process that ensures compliance with your billing guidelines and helps you identify litigation trends and matter-related risks as soon as possible.
- Improve communications and collaboration with outside counsel to optimize your relationships. Your law firms can view and edit information on matters, create budgets, submit invoices and documents, and provide status updates. Through enhanced collaboration with your firms, you also gain improved insight into matter progress and spending. And it’s easy to bring your law firms and legal vendors on board—there is no problem handling invoices in any format (including paper) and no billing codes are required.
