DataCert Partners with Fortune 500(R) Law Departments for Best Practices Seminar Series.Worldwide Seminars Will Focus on Spend Management Case Studies for both Corporate and Intellectual Property Law Departments HOUSTON -- DataCert, Inc., the leading provider of electronic invoicing in·voice n. 1. A detailed list of goods shipped or services rendered, with an account of all costs; an itemized bill. 2. The goods or services itemized in an invoice. tr.v. and legal spend management solutions, today announced that it is partnering with several Fortune([R])500 law departments to present a worldwide seminar series on electronic invoicing and legal and intellectual property spend management best practices. The educational seminars will feature executives from corporate law departments and highlight case studies on the lifecycle and applications of legal and IP spend management technology. The seminar series kicks off on February 28 and includes sessions in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Minneapolis, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Paris, Philadelphia, Silicon Valley, Washington D.C. and Zurich. All members of the corporate legal community responsible for managing outside counsel expenses are encouraged to attend. "These seminars embrace the core values of best practices by focusing on case studies from some of the world's top law departments and providing insight into industry trends and adoption rates," said Jeff Bolke, senior vice president of sales and marketing, DataCert. "By partnering with our corporate law department clients, our goal is to provide a forum for the active exchange of lessons learned between parties that normally have limited opportunities to meet." Electronic invoicing and legal spend management technology, renowned for its ability to streamline internal invoice An itemized statement or written account of goods sent to a purchaser or consignee by a vendor that indicates the quantity and price of each piece of merchandise shipped. A consular invoice is one used in foreign trade. workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. and report on outside counsel and vendor spending, first gained prevalence in 1999. Corporate law departments use the technology to increase transparency (1) The quality of being able to see through a material. The terms transparency and translucency are often used synonymously; however, transparent would technically mean "seeing through clear glass," while translucent would mean "seeing through frosted glass." See alpha blending. into their legal and IP spend. With the proper implementation and technology, law departments often realize a return on investment of between six and 10 percent of their total outside legal spend within one year of deployment. DataCert, experienced with implementations in large, complex law departments, counts six of the Fortune 10 as clients. The spring seminar series schedule includes: Date City Topic February 28 Philadelphia Best Practices March 1 New York City IP Spend Management March 27 Los Angeles Best Practices March 28 Orange County, Calif. Best Practices March 29 Paris Best Practices March 29 Silicon Valley IP Spend Management April 19 Zurich Best Practices April 19 Minneapolis Best Practices April 25 Toronto Best Practices May 2 Dulles, Va. Best Practices May 3 Washington D.C. Best Practices May 22 Amsterdam Best Practices June 21 Los Angeles IP Spend Management To register, please visit the DataCert web site at www.datacert.com/seminars or contact Josie Johnson at 832-369-6046 or jjohnson@datacert.com. There is no charge for registration. In addition to the seminar series, DataCert will be participating in numerous tradeshows in the spring, including the International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association CLE Cle total elimination clearance. Expo and the Association of Legal Administrators Annual Conference. For a complete listing of DataCert's 2007 events, please visit http://www.datacert.com/events/. About AIMS Advanced Invoice Management System (AIMS) is DataCert's web-based application See Web application. that facilitates the approval and payment of electronic invoices between law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
tr.v. val·i·dat·ed, val·i·dat·ing, val·i·dates 1. To declare or make legally valid. 2. To mark with an indication of official sanction. 3. against corporate outside counsel guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. , routed, adjusted and approved, then posted to a matter management and/or accounts payable system. About DataCert, Inc. DataCert, Inc. is the largest and fastest-growing supplier of electronic invoicing and corporate legal spend management solutions. DataCert's products and services provide a substantial return on investment to corporations looking to take control of their outside legal spend. With more than 7,300 customers in 110 countries, including 56 of the Fortune([R])500, DataCert processes in excess of $9 billion of electronic invoicing data on an annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. basis. DataCert is headquartered in Houston with regional offices in London, Paris and Austin. Visit DataCert at www.datacert.com for more information. |
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