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    Legal operations with Lawcadia

    Lawcadia's innovate range of legal solutions are designed to revolutionise the way legal departments operate. Lawcadia's platform addresses critical legal pain points, providing transparency, efficiency, and cost control from intake, to delivery. Lawcadia's unique two-sided platform with an intelligent automation engine simplifies collaboration between in-house legal teams, their clients, and law firms.

    Why you should choose Lawcadia

    Increased efficiency

    _20240509_productivityicon_ Icon_Website_100x100Lawcadia’s intelligent automation enhances efficiency by streamlining intake processes, eliminating manual data entry, generating documents, and automating approval workflows for legal reviews. 

    Enhanced transparency

    Document TransparencyAutomated data capture and advanced analytics, reporting and dashboards enhances and supports data-based decision making.

    Cost savings

    Cost savingsLawcadia's invoicing and eBilling solution automates and simplifies the invoicing process, offering PDF eBilling, detailed LEDES file reviews, automated rate card compliance, and comprehensive reporting for enhanced efficiency and productivity.

    Improved collaboration

    iManage CollaborationThese productivity tools enhances internal client relationships and promote efficiency in legal operations.

    Comprehensive solutions for in-house legal teams

    How to get the most value from Lawcadia

    Matter intake

    Matter intake & triage

    Streamline the intake and triage process with intelligent workflows that ensure accurate and timely handling of legal matters. This feature helps legal teams manage internal requests efficiently, reducing bottlenecks and improving service delivery.

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    Comprehensive matter management

    Organise and oversee all legal matters with real-time monitoring and tracking. Lawcadia’s matter management system provides a centralised platform for managing cases, ensuring no critical issues are overlooked.

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    Document automation

    Automate the creation of draft documents, agreements, and contracts. Lawcadia’s document automation reduces manual data entry, streamlines review processes, and ensures consistency across legal documents.

    Cost savings

    Spend management & eBilling

    Gain control over legal spend with structured approaches to engaging and managing outside counsel. Lawcadia’s spend management features include eBilling, invoice review, and budget tracking, helping legal departments save on external legal costs.

    Document Reporting

    Reporting & analytics

    Leverage automated reporting and analytics to demonstrate the value of your legal function. Lawcadia provides configurable metrics and dashboards that offer insights into legal operations, helping teams make data-driven decisions.

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    No-code automation

    Customise workflows with Lawcadia’s no-code automation engine. This feature allows legal teams to adapt the platform to their specific processes without the need for extensive coding or IT support.

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    What are legal workflows & why should they be automated?

    Legal workflow automation gives in-house lawyers the ability to create, enhance and embed best practice principles into their processes to facilitate consistent, collaborative, accountable and high-quality service delivery each time.

    In this article we discuss legal workflows and explore why and how they should be automated to accelerate response times and keep up with the increased pace of business.

    More on legal workflows

    Works with

    Microsoft Outlook
    iManage
    Microsoft Word

    Why legal technology products fail

    A legal tech implementation may fail due to poor user adoption, inadequate training, and lack of proper integration. Generally, if a legal technology product isn't user-friendly or well-integrated with other tools, or if its benefits aren't clear, users may resist adopting it and continue using familiar, less efficient methods. In this situation it becomes challenging to achieve ROI, or the implementation can fail altogether.

    The Ascertus solution

    At Ascertus we work collaboratively with our vendors and clients alike. This means we work in partnership to:

    • Establish business needs and objectives
    • Review appropriate solutions
    • Build an implementation strategy
    • Develop a bespoke onboarding program
    • Train employees to ensure adoption
    • Provide ongoing support and advice
    Everything you need to make a Lawcadia implementation successful.
    Ascertus process

    Four steps to start your Lawcadia journey

    Book a meeting

    One of expert consultants will discuss any business pain points and objectives.

    Product demo

    Based on the initial discovery we will tailor a solution on demo the benefits.

    Project scope

    Align on timings, budget and project structure, to support the Business Case.

    Strategy defined

    An in-depth implementation strategy is defined to ensure projects success.

    Speak to an expert

    Lawcadia resources

    Outside Counsel Management Guide

    Download our FREE Lawcadia guide: The 8 Principles to Effective Outside Counsel Management

    legal operations

    Streamline your legal operations, see the Lawcadia benefits.

    Lawcadia Business Case Guide

    Free Lawcadia guide: Crafting a compelling business case

    What is a matter management system?

    A matter management system, such as Lawcadia, is a software solution designed to help legal teams manage and organise their cases and projects efficiently. It centralises information, allowing for the tracking of legal matters from inception to resolution. Key features typically include document management, task and deadline tracking, communication logs, and reporting tools. These systems streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, improve compliance, and provide real-time insights into case progress and resource allocation, ultimately boosting productivity and operational transparency in legal departments.

    What is document automation in law?

    Document automation in law involves using technology, such as Lawcadia, to automatically create, manage, and store legal documents. This process typically includes generating standard contracts, agreements, and forms by inputting specific data into pre-designed templates. Benefits include reducing manual data entry, minimising errors, ensuring compliance, and saving time. By streamlining the creation and review process, document automation enhances efficiency and allows legal professionals to focus on more complex tasks.

    What is legal cost management?

    Legal cost management involves strategies and tools used to control and optimise invoices associated with legal services. This includes budgeting, tracking invoices, negotiating fees, and ensuring compliance with agreed-upon rates. Effective legal cost management aims to enhance transparency, predictability, and efficiency in legal spending, reducing unnecessary costs while maintaining high-quality legal support. Techniques such as automated billing systems, real-time invoice tracking, and detailed reporting are commonly employed to achieve these goals.

    What our clients have to say

    We don't expect you just to take our word for it. Our clients span a wide range of industries and sectors, in lots of different countries. See how Ascertus has helped them.

    CARDANO

    It’s clear to us that the Ascertus team has sound knowledge of iManage Cloud. They are working with us patiently and systematically to meet our system requirements. Their approach to working is very straightforward and professional – with a lot of emphasis on attention to detail.

    Miriam Lindsay, Senior Legal Counsel

    CARDANO
    LUNDGRENS

    Ascertus clearly stood out for its professional attitude towards customer communication. Also, unlike many other organisations, the company lays equal emphasis on providing support services and delivering technology implementations. This approach clinched the deal for us.

    Nikolaj Clausen, Chief Technology Officer

    LUNDGRENS
    NAUTADUTILH N.V

    Ascertus displayed great eagerness to understand our requirements and suggest approaches that would solve our problems. Executives from the CEO downwards were involved in discussions with us, which gave us a good insight into the company’s cultural attitude towards the delivery of support services.

    Jurian Hermeler, ICT Director

    NAUTADUTILH N.V
    SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN

    Ascertus continue to impress us with their knowledge and professionalism. Their deep understanding of the iManage suite allows them to efficiently resolve the complex issues that we escalate to them allowing us to focus on delivering benefits to our firm.

    Steve Dalgleish, Applications Manager

    SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN
    OCWM

    Implementation of iManage Cloud has been painless. Ascertus and our IT service provider worked collaboratively to deliver the solution to the firm. Our involvement was only in the initial design stages to decide things like policies for file naming and matter workspaces in the application. It could not have gone smoother.

    Aoife Cullen, Office Manager

    OCWM LAW
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