Serengeti’s on-demand reporting puts law departments in control, with instant access to current information about the volume of pending legal work, spending, status, and results. Serengeti allows law departments to select the types of information that they want to view, and to immediately generate reports for a bird’s eye view.
If the results generate questions that require further detail, Serengeti's reports include the ability to quickly drill-down to the specific matters and data that are driving results. Customizable exports to a spreadsheet or database facilitate the creation of presentation materials and further data analysis.
CUSTOMER INSIGHT - American ExpressQuestion: What types of reports do you run to track spending against budget or status results?Stuart Alderoty of American Express: We get a one page summary that will show us in the aggregate what we have paid for all of our outside counsel, litigation expenses from January 1 through to when the report has been run. On that same one page summary we compare that end number to the budget. You can look at it on the train ride home. You can look at it in the evening or you can look at it at your desk but it really gives you in five minutes you really get the sense of this is where we are as of this week in the year. Mark LoSacco of American Express Travel Related Services: These reports are the starting point for discussion with our outside counsel and allow us on a weekly basis to get a quick look at the overview of our case load. They also call out those outlier cases where the exposure is out of whack with the budget or the spend is moving too fast and we need to get in early and understand what the case is about and direct strategy.
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Reporting Features
- Look at your inventory of legal work, spending, status, and results by law firm, type of matter, business unit, cost center, or any other category, for any time period
- Identify trends over any time period related to changes in the volume and types of legal work, liability exposure, spending, and results
- View budget-to-actual comparisons to deal with any developing problem areas early, and to produce more accurate forecasts
- Assign new work to those outside counsel who have the best track records for handling similar work in the past
QUICK FACTS
• Over 400 customizablereports available
• Limit results to specific
practice groups or
organizational units
• Filter matters by status,
type, outside counsel, etc.
• Search database for
specific parties, firms,
issues, and other key criteria
• Easily print reports or
export them to another
database or spreadsheet
