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The matter management capabilities of Corporate Legal Desktop (CLD) optimize the performance of the corporate legal department by streamlining business processes and providing visibility into overall department and outside counsel performance. Using CLD, corporate legal departments can manage matters from beginning to end and efficiently track, organize and share volumes of matter-related information. This type of comprehensive solution enables the legal department to communicate its strategic value to the business and supports both the day-to-day responsibilities of legal department staff and the needs of executive management.

Matter management features include:

Matter identification and tracking - Manage detailed information about matters, including status narratives, business unit ownership, matter assignments, and any other relevant information associated with specific work types

People and organization identification and tracking - Capture information regarding plaintiffs, defendants and the outside counsel and service providers associated with each matter, including the ability to track individual timekeeper rates

Docket and calendar - Record important events during a matter's lifecycle and set up deadline reminders for attorneys and legal assistants

Budgets - Request and create budgets and track accruals for major litigation and complex transactions

Document assembly and import - Create forms, exchange data with outside counsel and easily import and update matter, people and organization information without re-keying data

Reporting - Meet versatile business intelligence needs, from granular queries to visually-rich dashboard reports, and leverage pre-configured business-relevant reports to gain new insight into legal department performance

Timekeeping - If desired, allocate the time of each legal department staff member to specific matters