Legal

The legal industry serves to protect the business and personal interests of its clients. Unfortunately most legal issues are complex, time consuming, and sources of significant cost, distraction, and uncertainty. From decisions to uncertainties to financials, legal teams 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 and support their recommendations to colleagues and clients alike.

Solutions

The Vanguard System™ 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 decision-making effectiveness by adding structure to a normally chaotic process.

Here are just a few ways Vanguard supports the legal industry:

• 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 mitigation strategies and contingency plans early on.
• 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 automated question-and-answer sessions.

Content Management System (CMS)

Vanguard Content Management System (CMS) is a Web-based expert system development tool for non-programmers. CMS Web-based applications guide customers or employees through complex decision-making processes using interactive, automated question and answer sessions. They are core software applications that can improve the operational efficiency of your key business processes.

CMS can help to provide structure to the decision-making processes in a law firm. Lawyers and paralegals can interact with a CMS application's question and answer sessions to determine what law firm policies and procedures to follow, what legal documents are required for each type of case, and what tasks to perform.

The expert knowledge of senior lawyers can be transformed into CMS expert systems where junior members learn the best strategies to follow according to the unique criteria of their case. Junior members can answer questions about the case and receive detailed reports indicating what actions they should take and what resources to use.

A law firms' clients can find information about their legal rights and responsibilities through CMS applications that ask them a series of questions, and then inform them about what information to collect and who to contact at the firm.