Content management:  OpenCounsel is a fully integrated solution that combines the elements of matter, financial, document and expertise management in one system specifically suited to corporate lawyers.  Key components unique to OpenCounsel are “big firm” document management and expertise management solutions.   This content management is essential for leveraging the investment made in internal and external expertise every year.

Expertise management: Fully integrated expertise management system that captures the valuable intellectual capital that you own (whether produced by your external counsel or in-house).  OpenCounsel’s intuitive structures allow all your expertise to be located and reused by your legal team and external providers.  All your IP is in your OpenCounsel repository and not scattered across multiple extranets and databases.

Work flow:  When viewing information, corporate counsel can act immediately by sending context relevant email to appropriate contacts  with automatically populated matter data. 

Matter opening:  Fully automated email based work flow solutions which make it easy for both corporate counsel and panel firms to open matters and update financial and status information. 

Matter Centric:  Automatic matter summaries (progress and financial details) are generated by your external counsel (and internal if you want) at pre-selected intervals (weekly, monthly etc).    Full document management allows matter content to be viewed.  Full integration with Office and Outlook tools used by corporate counsel.  Matter management system is fully integrated with document management system (which documents are related to which matter).  Providing one view of all matter based content and financial information.

Minimal report writing: Analytical KPI based information retrieval and reporting facility provides “ready made” and easy access to the information to and by the people who really can make a difference; your lawyers.   There is no need to invest into development of reports using generic reporting packages.  Convenient export  capability into Excel on every level for further modeling.

 Intuitive interfaces:  Lawyers have been successfully using the Analytics drill down capacity combined with relevant KPI structures for years. OpenCounsel’s dashboards are used by and work for lawyers.

 “Talks to” external counsel PMS systems:  Seamless fit of OpenCounsel with panel firms’ practice management systems.  This will ease integration, data accuracy and use of the system.  Ease of information update and integration for your external panel firms will lead to more accurate and up to date information for you.   This ability also facilitates e-billing solutions (proven examples are in use already).

 Contract management: Customisable fit for Customer Contract management requirements.

 Security:  Sophisticated security system (view, update, delete) throughout all system elements (matter, documents and expertise) allows all information access to be implemented to suit your specific corporate needs.

 Audit records and E-Discovery:  Information accessed is tracked and can be audited to complement your risk management needs.

 Scalable:  Technical platform is proven, scalable and robust. CCC Tested and approved.

 Reference:  Key system elements (Analytics, Document Management, Knowledge/Expertise management) proven and up and running for years in 400 person site.

 Experience:  Jiggy Interactive implementation resources straddle the full gambit of legal, IT management and development with 40 years + experience in the relevant legal industry.

 Client References:  Successfully implemented at Telecom New Zealand in July 06. Accessible client references to get one on one feedback about this solution.