Matter Management for Universities & Colleges
Whether your workday involves contracts, employment agreements or any type of transaction—whether you outsource your litigation or do your own—Legal Files matter management software for colleges and universities is comprehensive and powerful; yet flexible enough to meet any need. Legal Files helps you make your university’s legal department more efficient and productive. Plus, school districts love Legal Files too.
With Legal Files’ built-in flexibility, the system can and is being used in a variety of university settings in addition to university counsel, including human resources (HR)/employee relations (ER) departments for employee and labor relations case management, student conduct, risk management, internal audit, affirmative action, equity/Title IX investigations, diversity & access, labor relations, contracts, public safety, procurement, ombuds offices, and even law school legal clinics.
Features
With all the resources your department needs ─ matter, email, litigation, legal spend, document & contract management, ebilling and reporting, outside collaboration features, integrated calendars, and a tickler system ─ you become more efficient and productive using Legal Files.
Matter and document management- One, central location for all information related to each matter—even with widely dispersed legal teams or campuses
- Matter management
- Litigation management
- Department-wide contact management
- Document management and assembly
- Document text searching
- Contract management
- File notes, including alerts
- Invoice management
- Budgeting
- Optional ebilling module
- Response tracking
- Summary window
- Paperless matter or case
Office Management- Multiple location management
- Anytime/anywhere access
- File and management reports
- Custom menus and screens
- Assignment delegation
- Email integration
- Phone messaging, mail tracking and message notification
- Mobile app for the iPad and iPhone
- Activity summary
- File security
Calendars, event and task management- Calendars—office-wide, group, individual and matter/case
- Comprehensive dashboard
- To-do’s, reminders and alerts with automatic notification
- Group scheduler
- Legal dates and deadlines calculator
- Automated task scheduling
- Checklists
- One, central location for all information related to each matter—even with widely dispersed legal teams or campuses
- Matter management
- Litigation management
- Department-wide contact management
- Document management and assembly
- Document text searching
- Contract management
- File notes, including alerts
- Invoice management
- Budgeting
- Optional ebilling module
- Response tracking
- Summary window
- Paperless matter or case
- Multiple location management
- Anytime/anywhere access
- File and management reports
- Custom menus and screens
- Assignment delegation
- Email integration
- Phone messaging, mail tracking and message notification
- Mobile app for the iPad and iPhone
- Activity summary
- File security
- Calendars—office-wide, group, individual and matter/case
- Comprehensive dashboard
- To-do’s, reminders and alerts with automatic notification
- Group scheduler
- Legal dates and deadlines calculator
- Automated task scheduling
- Checklists
Next-Generation Benefits
From easily customizing the platform to managing expenses to accessing your dashboard wherever you are, Legal Files is there to support your day every step of the way.
Your own customized dashboard with reminders, messages, alerts and more.
Host your data on premises or in the Cloud, whichever works best for your office.
Support a virtual office with access to your Legal Files information –at home or on the road.
Centralize your document store. Use your desired folder structure. Easily search for and retrieve any document you’ve created or attached to a file.
Quickly create new documents by tapping into the document assembly feature.
Non-technical tools empower key staff to meet current and future requirements.
Track key dates & deadlines. Avoid scheduling conflicts. Choose from multiple views.
Save emails and attachments to your case. Unclutter your inbox. Make future retrieval a breeze.
Make quick work of tracking and reporting your expenses, or someone else’s; track budgets, as well.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
CASE STUDIES
University of Connecticut
University of Notre Dame
Illinois Education Association
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