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Serengeti Matter Management System Helps Lucent Technologies Connect with Law Firms Worldwide
Because of System's Unique Design,
Implementation and Training Took Less than Three Months
Bellevue, WA – March 25, 2003 – 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.
"We wanted a system that would make us significantly more efficient
managing our legal work with outside firms, that would be easy to use
for our professional and support staff worldwide, and that would allow
us to work with our outside counsel firms more effectively" said Steve
Rosen, VP-Law. "Serengeti helps us meet these goals and also helps
eliminate much of the paper that we were dealing with, since we now have
organized online information coming in directly from our law firms,
which helps us stay on top of our legal spending and results.”
Because Serengeti hosts the Web-based system, Lucent users and law firms
with Internet connections did not need to install any new hardware or
software. Quick implementation was also facilitated by an intuitive
design: training sessions for lawyers, paralegals, and staff (in-house
and at law firms), averaging about twenty users per online session, took
about one hour each. System flexibility allows immediate acceptance of
legal bills in any electronic format directly from all law firm time and
billing systems, including more than 150 currencies. Capabilities that
the Lucent Law Department has gained include: electronic legal bill
auditing, important development alerts, budget management, shared online
legal files, and on-demand management reports.
“We have enjoyed the opportunity to work with Lucent to bring their
legal teams around the world together onto a single system,” said Rob
Thomas, Vice President of Strategic Development for Serengeti Law.
“Lucent, with its international presence, is able to take full advantage
of our unique Web-based capabilities, including the processing of
invoices and management reports in foreign currencies. We also expect
that Lucent’s diverse teams and projects will help us to identify new
features that will benefit all of the legal professionals using our
system.”
About Serengeti Law
Serengeti Law provides Serengeti Tracker, a web-based electronic
invoicing and matter management service for law departments to work more
efficiently with their law firms. Serengeti Tracker includes electronic
bill auditing, online document and contract management, automated budget
management, and performance tracking. In-house counsel also create
customized management reports online, to analyze trends in spending,
track budgets and results, and create performance benchmarks. With only
an Internet connection and an hour of training, thousands of in-house
counsel are able to receive electronic invoices and work securely online
with all of their law firms, which currently include over 4,000 firms in
more than 100 countries worldwide. More information is available at:
www.SerengetiLaw.com.
Press Contact:
Rob Thomas
Serengeti Law
(425) 732-5555
rob.thomas@serengetilaw.com
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