Legal Counsel

Today's Legal Environments

Whether you are the legal department of a corporation or a law firm, the key business challenge you have is to find an easy, cost-effective way to access and share critical information and best practices.

Law firms are under great pressure by their clients to control fees and legal costs. Corporate legal departments are faced with budget cuts and are forced to look for ways to become more efficient and more productive with less staff.

You have only one solution… to use technology… the right technology.

Document Management isn't Enough Anymore

Document management has long been viewed as the foundation for the creation and management of work product. Built on Domino.Doc, IBM's document management solution, LEGAL Counsel offers all of the standard library services you would expect from a world-class legal solution.

Coupled with Lotus Sametime and Lotus Quickplace, LEGAL Counsel becomes a dynamic collaborative work environment for your legal teams. Attach Lotus Workflow and Lotus Discovery Server and you have a high-powered knowledge management system that allows you to automate the legal process and leverage organizational knowledge, expertise, precedents and core competencies.

And finally, bring it all together using Websphere Portal to give legal staff and business partners a single point of access and a secure, personalized and integrated view of your legal content.

Legal Counsel

LEGAL Counsel hits legal content management challenges on head-first!

Raising the quality and efficiency of internal processes
Sharing document and expertise efficiently and effectively
Eliminate the need to recreate work product
Capture and manage Best Practices
Build closer relationships within and across diverse organizations and geographical locations
Securely manage all document content regardless of form
Quickly identify subject matter experts