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Introduction Ascertus Limited specialise in providing consultancy, software solutions and related services for corporate and government in-house legal departments. We have the experience and knowledge to assist in-house legal departments address their constantly growing business demands with the latest information technology. Many legal departments are not fortunate enough to have dedicated resources to look after their specific information technology let alone investigate, identify and implement solutions to match their requirements. Ascertus can act as an intermediary between the organisations in-house legal department and their information systems department. We understand the responsibilities of both departments and can ensure that business requirement solutions are matched and in harmony with the current technology infrastructure. By their nature, legal departments carry expensive resources and the highest commercial risks within the organisation. They must balance this with the demand to produce and / or process more work, faster, whilst maintaining and where possible increasing the quality of the output. This has to be achieved with lower, or less costly, head count and overall expense. Ascertus have the skills to assist legal departments through the information technology maze and achieve great benefits and savings.
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Services Ascertus can provide the following in house legal specific services:Examples of legal department solutions for which we provide these services include: Legal information management Document management Knowledge management Document production Document comparison / redlining Time recording Contact and customer relationship management Electronic fax and computer telephony
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Areas of Speciality Ascertus can assist in-house legal departments in many different areas. Areas which we believe we can add value, provide benefit and address concerns such as cost, resources and image include: The reduction of in-house law department costs, including the management of outside counsel fees and expenses. Provision of "self service" and access to legal information to internal clients and business management. Secure sharing of information and closer collaboration with outside law firms and other corporations. Electronic transmission, review and validation of outside counsel invoices. Alternative billing arrangements with outside counsel. Remote and mobile access – enabling home or small / provincial office workers access to head office services without compromising functionality, application robustness, security or access speed Workflow - automation and improvement of business processes. From simple electronic document routing to complex decision processing. Consolidation of multiple legal department information following merger or acquisition. Time recording and task based billing Facilitating the increased use of legal assistants rather than lawyers to handle expansion of legal departments Executive information systems, i.e. "dashboard" management information systems providing trend and risk analysis in an intuitive, visual way, to glean intelligence from department and corporate data Pre- and post-matter analysis so that issues are dealt with at the earliest and most appropriate time.
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