Serengeti Tracker provides a number of specialized features for simplifying the management of your entire litigation lifecycle. Bringing together your registered agent, outside counsel, experts, and internal clients in a shared project file also improves the efficiency with which you can move matters to resolution.

From Potential Dispute to Resolution

Many companies find that in addition to tracking litigation they need the ability to capture preliminary data about potential disputes. Serengeti allows your department to easily organize the large volumes of claims, incident reports, or other data that help you anticipate upcoming litigation. Once a suit is filed, Tracker makes it easy to convert a potential dispute into a matter and collect additional information without data any re-entry.

Specialized Features for litigation

Tracker provides a number of tools designed specifically for simplifying the process of managing litigation:

Law Firm & Parties Conflict Check
Quickly search across all matters or a group of matters to determine if a firm has been adverse in the past or if parties have appeared in other litigation.
Service of Process (S.O.P.) Module
Retrieve S.O.P. records directly from your registered agent or input them yourself, then track response deadlines.
Budgeting by Litigation Phase
Gather spending estimates by phases in the lifecycle of a case (e.g. Initial Case Assessment, Discovery, Trial Preparation, etc.), and then receive invoice audit alerts if spending exceeds the budget amount.
FAS 5 Exposure Reporting
Rather than enter one exposure amount on a matter, companies can enable FAS 5 reporting. This feature provides a customizable series of questions for determining if a loss is material, and if so it allows in-house or outside counsel to provide the range of exposure estimates.
Docketing & Key Dates
Rather than re-keying docketing dates provided by your firm, Tracker allow your outside counsel to keep the matter calendar up-to-date in the system for you. You can then view a master calendar covering all projects for an individual or a group, receive email reminders, and sync dates with Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes.
Online Repository of Litigation Documents
Rather than sending faxes and emails of your key litigation documents, Tracker allows your firms to post them directly in the system utilizing 128 bit encryption. This provides quick and organized access to complaints, pleadings, briefs, research, scheduling orders, etc. without having to request them individually from outside counsel.
Status Updates (Monthly or Quarterly)
Receive periodic matter status updates from your outside counsel in one standardized format that includes key development alerts. Generate reports that summarize matter status for multiple matters in one screen.
Audit Letter Compiler
Serengeti organizes the process of assigning and collecting case summaries for your audit letter directly from your outside counsel.
Subpoena Response Tool
Significantly reduce the amount of time it takes to search, gather, and export any data in the system in a format that is easily shared.

EXCERPT FROM A WEB SEMINAR FEATURING SERENGETI CUSTOMERS

Question: How does your department manage complex litigation?

"They’ll be sent right to outside counsel, who accesses Serengeti as well. We will then collect data regarding budgeting, exposure, status, and a whole host of information we get from our outside counsel. That allows us to generate reports and determine how we’re going to actually approach the case from a defense perspective, what type of resources we need, and whether we need to consider early settlement; things like that."

Mark LoSacco
Head Litigation Counsel
American Express Travel Related Services Company

TRANSCRIPT - The Association of Corporate Counsel Seminar
Tracking Outside Counsel Performance

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QUICK FACTS

Specialized Features

• FAS 5 Exposure Reporting
• Service of Process Module
• Budget by Litigation Phase
• Law Firm Conflict Checking
• Audit Letter Compiler
• Subpoena Response Tool

Litigation Data
Supplied by Law Firm

• Resolution Estimates
(duration, phase, & outlay)
• Exposure/Recovery
Estimates (monetary & non)
• Court/Forum
• Summary of Dispute
• Claims
• Key Issues
• Docketing Info/Key Dates
• Complaint & Related Docs

Litigation Data
Supplied by Law Dept

• Settlement Authority
• Reserve Amount
• Insurance Coverage
• Exposure/Recovery
Estimates (for comparison)
• Partial Settlement Info
• Resolution Details
• Lessons Learned