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Corporate Legal Desktop (CLD) is the DataCert legal operations management solution that unites best-of-breed matter management and legal spend management solutions into a powerful, fully-integrated application.

CLD provides a comprehensive view of the relationships between costs, financial and business risks, legal department workload, outside counsel use and matter status while reducing the time attorneys spend on administrative tasks. When legal operations management is built upon the foundation of CLD, the corporate legal department spends more time practicing law and gains the tools and insight to be a strategic business partner.

What Does CLD Do?
CLD enables corporate legal departments to:

• Get organised with an integrated solution that provides one place to review and approve invoices and track matters and their associated people, events, documents, budgets and financial data
• Gain enhanced visibility into risks and trends and make better decisions with business intelligence that combines consistent, real-time data with DataCert thought leadership to deliver comprehensive reporting that addresses the unique needs of corporate legal departments
• Improve the bottom line and productivity by eliminating paper invoices, streamlining business processes and automating the enforcement of outside counsel guidelines and routing and approval of invoices
• Close communication gaps among even the most widespread legal team as they share matter information in a centralised database and use document assembly and import capabilities to facilitate exchange of information with outside counsel
• See and share the big picture with multi-faceted views that combine matter and outside counsel information with pertinent financial data to bring greater transparency and precision to the use of legal department resources

How Does CLD Work?
The diagram below depicts the integrated legal spend and matter management solution. Invoices are submitted by law firms/vendors, flow through the automated guideline compliance engine and invoice review and approval process and then post to the accounts payable or other back-end systems. Within CLD, the legal department manages and tracks matters and their associated organisations, people, events, and budgets, while reporting tools facilitate comprehensive analysis of matters and financials.