Advanced ELM Capabilities Simplify Legal Operations While Reducing Legal Spend
Optimize Matters, Reduce Costs, and Boost Data Transparency
Corporate legal departments choose Ascent ELM to streamline global legal operations, manage legal spending, and easily analyze all matter data. Ascent ELM provides visibility into all aspects of your legal operations with a fully integrated, configurable dashboard delivering information precisely when and where you need it. Our dedicated team of Enterprise Legal Management system experts onboard, train and support you and your vendors 24/7; all at no extra cost.
Drive successful outcomes by tracking all matter data in one collaborative platform with a user-defined and configured analytic dashboard, SmartView™. Ascent ELM makes it easy to display all teams, vendors, financial data, tasks, appointments, and calendars on one screen.
Electronic invoicing allows vendors to submit with preset routing routines for large invoice volumes. An advanced rules processing engine provides error identifications, warnings, adjustments, and rejection capabilities. Ascent ELM enables complex searches, calculations, validations, and notifications at no charge. Most business system interfaces are included.
An embedded legal hold module manages and tracks all custodians and status of a legal hold. Custom communication templates and custodian questionnaires that fit your business are provided with full reporting, alerts, and reminders.
Handle your ELM tasks directly from your email inbox without sacrificing the features, functionality, and security. Ascent ELM SmartLink connects you to the tool you use most—email—but also has the power to easily add documents, create and edit matters, and manage invoices from within the Microsoft Office suite of tools including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to further streamline work.
Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics
Report Builder™ offers a broad, drop-down set of pre-built reports on all matter metrics and data. Online searching, job scheduling, and report-building tools allow reporting on any matter data field. SmartView™ delivers all enhanced Analytics and Benchmarking data in one place. Real-time, analyzed data provides the insights to make better business decisions.
Enhanced workflows provide matter intake, vendor onboarding, accruals, budgeting, and timekeeper submissions/review processing tools. Automation gives legal teams the ability to constantly evaluate and adjust their processes to remove review bottlenecks, improve efficiencies, forecast new matter tasks, and adapt to ever-changing requirements.
A user-friendly UI enhances the user experience without the need for costly programming. Configurable and adaptable analytic dashboards make each role more efficient. User-configurable pages and personalized displays put the information you need at your fingertips. Dashboards are set up by users to fit their roles and to deliver the right information at any time. All functions are fully supported by our own dedicated team of Enterprise Legal Management service experts.
Incorporate and measure Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs), budgets, accruals, and matter forecasts with secure, online access tocollaborate with all outside vendors associated with a matter.
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