Litigators, Can Your Legal Collaboration Platform Do This?
A litigator’s biggest challenge can boil down to effectively managing and analyzing large amounts of data coming from a variety of sources. Litigators must navigate through this data to build a strong case, manage tight deadlines, and coordinate with clients and internal teams.
Ensuring the security and integrity of sensitive data throughout the matter lifecycle poses a significant challenge, especially with the reliance on digital platforms and the need for quickly sharing confidential information with internal and external parties. Legal teams often default to text messaging or email for short form communication, but this can lead to data risks and communication gaps.
Adopting the right technology and strategies to streamline data management, communication, and collaboration is crucial for litigators to effectively manage the matter lifecycle and win cases for clients. Moreover, a legal collaboration platform should equally offer efficiency to both attorneys and their clients.
Litigators: Centralized Matter Management
By centralizing matter management and collaboration on a platform like Workstorm, litigators can control data privacy, streamline document sharing, facilitate real-time collaboration, and improve communication with clients and external parties. This approach not only increases productivity and transparency in legal operations but also strengthens client relationships.
Workstorm’s Matter Folders provide a secure environment for sharing confidential and sensitive information, ensuring the protection of client data and maintaining attorney-client privilege. Information governance administrators can create matter channels with specific retention policies to regulate access and enhance data security throughout the collaboration process. One can easily invite external parties such as clients, expert witnesses, and consultants to create a secure collaboration experience and ensure that all stakeholders involved are informed throughout the matter lifecycle. Private-by-default channels enable teams to move communication out of email for short form messaging and into a protected workspace.
Inside secure channels, Workstorm enables seamless and secure document sharing by integrating with leading document management systems such as iManage, Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, and more. The platform’s global search function enables quick and efficient retrieval of case-related information and documents. Additionally, Workspaces offer a dashboard view into Matter Folders, putting important conversations and files into a single view.
Workstorm promotes real-time collaboration by providing messaging, video conferencing, email, and calendar functionalities in one single integrated platform. This integrated approach enables legal teams to make quick decisions, solve problems effectively, and enhance communication and workflow efficiency during the litigation process for all parties involved in the case.
Clients: Secure Accessibility to Legal Team and Documents
Legal collaboration platforms should focus on providing clients access to secure channels where they can communicate with their legal teams and access important documents. Further, there shouldn’t be a technology platform barrier that prevents a client from securely and effortlessly collaborating. Workstorm is designed to support this client-centric approach to help clients stay engaged and informed throughout the matter lifecycle.
Clients are added to secure channels by authorized administrators within the law firm. These private-by-default channels grant clients the ability to see only the channels they are authorized to view. The matter centric dashboard gives clients a holistic view of the relevant material, and enables them to collaborate and review documents. Centralizing documents for clients improves reliability by eliminating version control issues that result in having to search email inboxes for the most recent email. Both clients and legal teams can review documents with the confidence that they are reviewing the most updated draft.
Data privacy is a top priority for clients and Workstorm provides encryption and access controls to protect sensitive client information and uphold confidentiality. This protected environment allows clients to collaborate with their legal team, share confidential documents, and provide real-time decision making on legal strategies. For the most sensitive of affairs, legal teams are one-click away with secure video conferencing —both scheduled and ad hoc within a matter channel. Workstorm’s user-friendly interface and personalized features remove technical barriers for clients to stay engaged and informed.
By creating a centralized collaboration platform centered around privacy, secure communication, and client engagement, Workstorm enhances the overall client relationship and experience.
Summary: Workstorm for Matter Management
With Workstorm, both litigators and clients can overcome common challenges in legal collaboration to ensure secure communication, informed decision-making, and proper handling of sensitive information throughout the legal process. Workstorm promotes active client involvement, effective communication, and collaborative approaches that enhance the overall client experience and contribute to effective matter management. Talk to an expert >>
