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International Success Story: Amazon.com
Manages Worldwide Legal Spending with Serengeti Tracker |
| From China to Chile, Amazon.com speaks the international language of commerce. As a result, the law department confronted a number of unique challenges when working with its overseas business units and law firms. ■ more | |
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FMC Technologies Monitors Performance,
Controls Spending with Serengeti Tracker |
| When millions of dollars in legal fees are at stake, one award winning system deserves another. FMC Technologies, Inc. relies on its proprietary Alliance Counsel Engagement System™ (ACES), an innovative risk-reward fee structure, to compensate law firms based on actual performance. ■ more | |
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Google Automates Accruals with Tracker; Slashes Collection Time, Gains Detailed Financial Analysis |
| Google’s stated mission is “organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful.” But when it came to collecting and analyzing monthly accruals—unbilled time and pending invoices from outside law firms—Google faced a serious information management problem. ■ more | |
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Serengeti’s Unique Blend of Online Tools
Streamlines Contract Management and Compliance at Jamba Juice |
| At Jamba Juice, customers can get a variety of nutritious blended beverages and food products. Similarly, the company’s law department needed an all-in-one solution for a variety of tasks: e-invoicing; tracking legal fees; and managing hundreds of vendor agreements, supply contracts, franchise agreements, and other legal docs. ■ more | |
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Kruger Products’ Solo In-House Counsel Credits Serengeti Tracker with Major Efficiency Boost |
| Alex Teijeira must be one of the busiest lawyers in the tissue business. As Director, Human Resources and Legal Counsel for Kruger Products, Teijeira single-handedly manages the company’s litigation, contracts, compliance, employment, international IP, and other legal issues. As a result, Teijeira relies heavily on his team of outside counsel across Canada, the United States, and Mexico, as well as his IP firms around the world, to help manage his busy practice. ■ more | |
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Life Technologies Finds It’s Easy—and Efficient— Being Green on Serengeti |
| When two biotech giants merged to form Life Technologies, senior paralegal Julie Schwartz had an ambitious, two-part goal: (1) She needed to replace two different legal invoice routing and approval processes with one streamlined system; and (2) It had to be paperless. “Our old processes wasted so much paper, which was unacceptable to me personally and didn’t fit with our company policy of environmental responsibility,” Schwartz said. ■ more | |
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Serengeti Matter Management System Helps
Lucent Technologies Connect with Law Firms Worldwide |
| Serengeti Law today announced the completion of the
implementation of the Serengeti Tracker system, a secure Web-based system, to connect Lucent’s Law Department with its law firms worldwide. Lucent’s professional and support legal staff can now exchange key information online within a single organized system to manage legal bills, documents, budgets, status updates, and results. Because of the system’s unique design, it took less than three months to train and connect more than 120 Lucent users in some 37 offices, with their law firms located throughout the US and more than 50 countries. ■ more |
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Serengeti Makes the Grade: Stanford Manages
Outside Counsel More Efficiently with Automated Tools |
| Stanford’s law department manages a trusted panel of outside counsel for a range of work including litigation, transactions and intellectual property. The law department needed an automated solution to ensure that its firms would submit matter information, budgets and status reports on time. ■ more |
