How Does CLD Work?

 
The diagram below depicts the integrated legal and IP spend and matter management solution. Invoices are securely submitted by law firms/vendors/agents, flow through the automated audit and compliance engine and invoice review and approval process, and then post to the accounts payable or other back-end systems. Within CLD, the legal department manages and tracks matters and their associated organizations, people, events, and budgets. Timekeeper, budget, and accruals collaboration features streamline the exchange of data with outside counsel, while reporting tools facilitate comprehensive analysis of matters and financials.

DataCert Solutions Overview

DataCert is the premier global provider of legal operations management solutions, including legal and IP spend and matter management solutions that can be purchased and deployed individually or as a fully-integrated suite. Our solutions deliver significant return on investment, support business on a global scale, and have empowered DataCert customers to reduce costs, drive efficiency, enhance collaboration, improve visibility into spend and risk, and, ultimately, make more strategic and proactive business decisions.

DataCert Spend Management

AIMS provides corporate legal departments with the tools and information to cut costs, gain visibility into legal spend, streamline the invoice approval process, and more strategically manage outside counsel relationships and legal department resources. A key feature of the AIMS spend management solution is its audit and compliance engine, which performs an automated audit of invoices to help eliminate time-consuming invoice review activities.

In addition, AIMS offers a highly flexible automated invoice routing and review process that can be tailored to support each customer’s unique business processes. AIMS’ ability to automatically and consistently enforce outside counsel guidelines and streamline processes drives significant ROI while freeing legal personnel to focus on higher-value activities. AIMS also includes a collaboration module that streamlines communication with outside counsel and globalization-related features that support the use of multiple currencies and enable local regulatory compliance (e.g. VAT compliance). And, with Insight reporting, legal spend data becomes actionable information that empowers corporate counsel to make well-informed, strategic business decisions.

DataCert believes that access to a premier level of customer support is an integral part of any successful legal operations management solution.

We offer live customer support via phone and email with options that allow each client to configure its level of support to meet its own regional or global support needs and business continuity requirements. In addition, DataCert is the only provider in the industry that offers local implementation, customer relationship, and support services in EMEA.

DataCert is the only provider with a team dedicated to law firms. We believe that we should handle law firm implementations and support questions so that our customers don’t have to. We are the only provider that manages the firm onboarding process from start to finish for clients and provides ongoing 24/7 worldwide firm support via an experienced team that currently serves firms in over 150 countries.

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