LexisNexis Adds New Capabilities and Enhancements to CounselLink

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24
Feb
2022

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LexisNexis^® CounselLink^® today announced the release of version 22.1 of its industry-leading enterprise legal management (ELM) solution.

This release delivers significant new features across the entire legal management process to help legal departments streamline work and matter management, better predict costs and demonstrate their value to their business. 

“As the leading ELM platform, CounselLink is committed to driving continuous innovation and product improvement and putting the most critical requirements of our customers first,” said CounselLink Vice President of Product Management, Aaron Pierce. “With each release we add new tools and deeper capabilities to help legal departments lower costs, make budgets more predictable, manage risk and improve decision-making.”

To help improve the way in-house legal departments run, the updated ELM platform addresses a variety of key operational areas.  Some of the many new features include:

• Enhanced Microsoft Outlook add-in to streamline tasks, eliminating need to switch applications
• Upgraded visual dashboard to analyze and report on outside counsel billing compliance 
• Expanded budgeting capabilities to better manage and reconcile spend against projections
• Expanded invoice review functionality to allow greater usability across multiple sessions
• Expanded allocation capabilities for better financial oversight and user role management
• New API integrations that improve interoperability with other financial and workflow tools

The greater visibility into in-house operations delivered by CounselLink helps legal departments run more effectively as a business. Key learnings from enterprise legal management solutions can help teams anticipate events or develop tactical initiatives for better strategic planning and workflow. Through this basis of continuous improvement, legal teams will be better able to both demonstrate their value to the business and succeed in their tasks.