Legal

Legal departments serve to protect the business interests of their companies. Unfortunately most legal issues are complex, time consuming, and sources of significant cost, distraction, and uncertainty. From decisions to uncertainties to financials, legal departments must navigate through the complexities of legal cases and provide structure to the decision-making process. They must be able to fully understand the range of possible outcomes and choose the best course of action in response. And, they must be able to clearly communicate their recommendations to colleagues and management alike.

Bringing Together People, Analytics, and Systems

The Vanguard System™ helps Legal departments and firms answer these questions and more. Vanguard is a comprehensive business solution for improving the quality, reliability, and speed of management decisions. It does this by helping you Collaborate with colleagues on important plans, Analyze alternatives using state-of-the-art modeling and simulation techniques, Automate routine decisions using expert system technology, and Improve overall management effectiveness by adding structure to a normally chaotic process.

Business improvement is all about working smarter. Vanguard brings together the people, analytics, and systems required to help your business operate intelligently.

What Can Vanguard Do For You?

Here are just a few ways Vanguard supports legal departments:

• Litigation Strategy: Choose the best course of action while reducing transaction costs and maximizing opportunities for early settlements.
• Negotiation Analysis: Know whether or not a deal is a good deal. See which factors have the greatest impacts on a negotiation and use them to your advantage.
• Mediation Support: Resolve business disputes more quickly. Better convey the complexities of a case to all parties through structured models and risk analysis.
• Liability Exposure: Capture risks and uncertainties to fully quantify your exposure. Prepare risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Collaborative analysis: For complex cases, Vanguard lets colleagues and clients simultaneously contribute to a decision analysis model in their areas of expertise. For example, one colleague can estimate the likelihood of liability while another estimates the damages.
• Claims Filing: Expertly guide lawyers and paralegals through complex claims filing processes using intuitive Web-based question and answer sessions.

The new Vanguard Content Management System (CMS) enables law firms to develop automated systems for routine decision-making processes without programming knowledge. In the Web-based development environment of CMS, individuals can convert their expertise into an automated Web-based application using visual editors similar to word processing software. Interactive decision-making tools that leverage the expertise of senior lawyers, online guides to help lawyers apply policies and follow procedures, and other interactive Web applications can be rapidly developed by legal business experts to improve consistency in communication and reduce costs.