Year: 2016

Onit Ranks #387 on Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List

We are incredibly excited to announce that Onit has made the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America!

Every year Inc. 500 puts out their ranking and it’s a list we are proud to be a part of for the first time. Onit ranked 387 with three-year growth of 990%. It is a great accomplishment and we are incredibly proud. We work hard to help corporate legal departments save time with automation.

To qualify for the Inc. 500, we were part of an elite group that met the following criteria:

  • Have generated revenue by March 31, 2012
  • Have generated at least $100,000 in revenue in 2012
  • Have generated at least $2 million in revenue in 2015
  • Be privately held, for profit; based in the U.S., and independent (not a subsidiary or division of another company).

Check out what some of our customers have to say about Onit: 

Onit has proven a great partner both in terms of its product features and the customer service support the Onit team provides. Onit provides a very nimble product that can be quickly modified and adapted for various business needs. This is not the case with the other products we considered in this space. My experience of Onit is that they are motivated not only to sell their product at the outset but to continue to improve the product and ensure customer success in the adoption and use of the product. It’s been a great experience so far.

– Dana McDonald, Senior Counsel, Under Armour 

I love Onit Apps! I seem to find most of my problems can be solved with an Onit App. They are very easy to get setup and the customer support team is great at responding quickly and making updates as we identify changes we need. [The App] has improved our intake process … We have recently found that other departments are now asking us for access to the information we have in there because it is so valuable!

– Kirsten Taitelbaum, Director of Legal Finance and Operations, DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.

You can read more customer success stories here.

We hope to continue ranking higher and higher on the Inc. 500 list as the years go on. It’s our goal to spread the word about the benefits of enterprise legal management (ELM) to corporate legal departments everywhere. We’d love an opportunity to talk with you in depth about ELM or discuss your current contract management needs.

Schedule a demo with us today and learn how Onit can customize solutions just for your corporate legal department.

Onit Adds ELM Industry Leader to Executive Team

We are so excited to have Matt DenOuden join the Onit team as our new vice president of sales. With nearly 30 years of industry experience, Matt has been on the front lines of the Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) revolution. Matt’s expertise in legal operations technology and strategy will play a key role in Onit’s future as we help modernize corporate legal departments use of technology and automate their processes. Matt has worked with more than 50% of the Fortune 500 law departments in the last decade alone and brings great insight to what makes technology successful in carrying out company strategy. 

In a statement on LinkedIn, Matt expressed his dedication to Onit’s vision:

I am excited and proud to join the management team at Onit, Inc. where I will lead the sales effort at the fastest growing ELM company in the market. In a few short years, Onit has gathered an amazing list of thought-leading clients. For these clients, Onit often not only handles all the workflows and needs of the law department, but is so powerful and flexible as to include dozens of Apps for adjacent workflows like contract management, sales, compliance, and legal holds (to name just a few…). The philosophy of Onit is to meet the knowledge worker at the point of process and decision making with an intuitive and powerful tool providing the data to make the smart decision. The potential applications are nearly limitless across legal, claims, the contract life cycle, and even healthcare. I have been truly inspired to see the list of Onit “Enterprise Apps” grow on a monthly basis.

I believe that the Onit vision, to which I hope to contribute, will lead to much stronger adoption and value creation in the ELM space–two areas where other solutions have struggled in recent years. Dozens and dozens of clients of old ELM platform solutions have already crossed over to the Onit way and there is another large wave building. Sometimes, new clients join Onit one App (workflow) at a time. Migrating budgeting, then rate management, then legal holds, then finally full matter and spend management. Implementing an Onit App, even in a complex workflow, takes weeks not months. Once client users have had the fresh, intuitive Onit experience in one workflow, they almost always demand it in others. One client has over 80 Apps, including one to monitor the huge usage of the others. For this client, thus far, none of these Apps is directly tied to matter and spend management. (Yet…)! This only goes to show that Onit is there to serve the customer’s need today, whatever that might be.

At Onit, we will not rest until we help you find a better way to work!”

Welcome to the team, Matt! For more information about how Matt DenOuden and our team of ELM experts can help your corporate legal department, schedule a demo or call Matt directly at 860-356-5624.

Calling All Participants: It’s Time for the Ninth Annual Law Department Operations Survey

Do you want a chance to be heard?

It’s time for the Ninth Annual Law Department Operations Survey. Now is your chance to let us know what challenges your legal department is facing. At Onit, we like to stay current with what’s going on in the legal industry to evolve our solutions in a way that is truly helpful to you.

The Legal Department Operations (LDO) survey was first created in 2008 to give law departments a consistent platform to benchmark themselves and shed light on the then-emerging profession of law department operations. In addition to being the original of its kind, as the industry has grown exponentially, the LDO survey has remained the most respected benchmarking tool in the space. 

Not only is this an opportunity to express your thoughts, completion of the survey will you get you access to the exclusive final results. See how your legal department compares to others in categories such as:

  • Compensation
  • Metrics and Reporting
  • Outside Counsel Management
  • Technology and Cybersecurity
  • Change Management

Click here to take the survey now!

Onit provides ELM solutions to help automate corporate legal department. Click here to learn more about the benefits of Enterprise Legal Management solutions from Onit. Is Contract Management on your radar right now? We’ve got tools for that too!

Schedule a demo and learn more about how Onit can help your legal department.

TechnoLawyer Features Onit’s Contract Management Suite in this Week’s Issue

Onit was featured in this week’s TechnoLawyer NewsWire (TL NewsWire), outlining our Contract Management Suite in an exclusive report. Onit’s solutions are growing in popularity and we are very excited for the write up.

Here’s some of our favorite quotes from the TL Newswire:

“Working in a legal department can feel like being in a bumper car as you’re bombarded daily with requests to review new contracts and stay on top of leases, software licenses, and other agreements with important date-related terms. Manual systems comprised of email and spreadsheets can seem like chewing gum and bailing wire, inadequate to the task….

…Onit features a ReviewAI & Approval portal through which managers and salespeople can submit contracts to the legal department. You can configure the intake form for each type of contract routinely submitted. Based on preset rules, Onit routes each submitted agreement to a designated lawyer for review. Designated lawyers receive an email notification, and also see the contract on their dashboard.

Each contract has a “Phased Workflow” feature to ensure compliance with your company’s policies and to ensure a timely review. These workflows accommodate parallel or serial processes and conditional logic. For example, contracts involving more than $1M can require an extra approval from your general counsel. Lifecycle metrics can be added to track the number of days it takes to approve and finalize the contract.

Tools within the Phased Workflow environment enable you to communicate with the business team and attach markups and supporting materials. Onit also provides a unique email address for each contract so that any email you need to send automatically gets filed in that contract’s workflow.”

Click here to read the rest of the article and learn more about other notable features and how Onit integrates with other tools. TL Newswire is one of the leading legal technology and practice management blogs in the industry. Learn more about receiving the TL Newswire and staying up-to-date on what’s new in legal tech.

Onit’s Contract Management Suite simplifies the submission, review, approval and management of contracts in one easy to use tool. Schedule a demo with us today to learn more about the benefits of implementing a transparent contract review and approval process.

Top 4 Reasons Why You Need An Enterprise Legal Management Solution from Onit!

1. Efficiency – Enterprise legal management (ELM) from Onit are flexible, lightweight, and easy-to-use. To us, ELM is more than just matter and spend Management. Our ELM platform that lets you solve the “whole” of your legal department’s needs, whether that is for contract management, NDA creation and distribution, Legal Holds, SEC filings, eDiscovery or IP issues.

2. Quick Setup – In today’s environment, most ELM initiatives take between nine to 12 months for scoping, implementation and final execution — if not longer. ROI is typically not measured for months after completion. Our implementation process is unique in that no other ELM vendor can offer such quick deployments. Our typical ELM implementation beats the average implementation process by months.

3. Highly Regarded Solutions – From Gartner to Legaltech News, the legal industry is talking about Onit. It’s big news in the industry that no other ELM solution provider approaches legal department operations with “process” as its foundation.

4. Be Ahead of the Curve – Gartner predictions from the February 2016 Market Guide Report suggest that the adoption of ELM solutions will increase from 20 to 50% by 2020. Save your legal team some time by implementing early on.

Onit’s configurable solutions can help corporate legal departments of all sizes. Schedule a demo with us today to learn more. You can also check out our blog for additional articles to learn more about ELM.

Enterprise Legal Management is “Hot” Topic at Summer Tradeshows

Onit’s had a very busy summer so far. We’ve been attending conferences and tradeshows all over the country to educate corporate legal departments about the benefits of enterprise legal management. Last month we hosted a session at the CLOC Corporate Legal Institute, “Process Matters: ELM Redefined – Beyond Traditional Legal and Spend Management – Law Department Operations for the 21st Century.

Lead by Onit founder and CEO, Eric M. Elfman and David Cambria, Global Director of Operations – Law, Compliance and Government Relations, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the two thought leaders discussed trends in the Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) space and highlighted how “process” is redefining how legal department operation managers provide “continuous” value to their company.

Brad Blickstein, a contributor to Legaltech News attended and wrote an awesome article inspired by our session titled, “Next Generation ELM Must Be About Process, Collaboration, Automation.” Below are some of our favorite excerpts from the piece:

“Last month, I spent the better part of a week at the inaugural CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations) Institute in San Francisco. CLOC is a grassroots organization of law department operations professionals, and the Corporate Legal Operations Institute was their first effort at a conference. It was a big success, with legal operations leaders from more than 130 companies getting together for three days of networking and education.

One of the sessions I was most interested in was one of those forward-looking sessions, titled “ELM Redefined: Beyond Traditional Legal & Spend Management—Law Department Operations for the 21st Century.” The main speaker on the session was David Cambria, global director of operations, law, compliance and government relations at Archer Daniels Midland Company. David and I collaborate on the annual Law Department Operations Survey, and he’s about as knowledgeable as they come in this area…

…So what should a “next generation” ELM system look like? For starters, managing a legal enterprise in today’s environment requires a lot more than just information about matters and spend. “Of all the things we spend time on, 80 percent are not supported by the tools that supposedly provide enterprise legal management,” says Cambria. According to the 2015 Law Department Operations survey, an LDO’s time is split quite evenly (between 5 and 17 percent of their day) among seven different areas: outside counsel management, technology, law department strategy, law department administration, vendor management, financial reporting/forecasting and electronic discovery. If a system is going to call itself an “enterprise” system, it needs to help the department manage all those areas, and more.

Read the complete article here.

Thank you to everyone who attended our sessions over the past few months. Your presence and eagerness to learn more about ELM means the world to us. We appreciate your time and hope that if you’ll be able to join us again soon. If you have not had a chance to attend one of our sessions, check out our calendar of upcoming events. We’d love to see you this fall!

For more information about how ELM can help your corporate legal department, check out The Plain and Simple Facts about ELM.

Onit and Archer Daniels Midland Company to Speak on Innovation in Law Department Operations at the ACC Legal Operations Conference

The 2016 ACC Legal Operations Conference is right around the corner. June 23 and 24 will be packed with sessions about the advancements and latest trends in legal technology. Join us at the Chicago Magnificent Mile for this industry leading event.

Join Onit for our session, “Innovation in Law Department Operations: Enterprise Legal Management for the 21st Century.” David Cambria (Global Director of Operations – Law, Compliance and Government Relations, Archer Daniels Midland Company ADM) will be joining Cole Morgan, Onit’s Director, Operations Implementation to discuss the evolving needs of today’s legal department.

This session will highlight:

  • Benchmarks, metrics and analysis of current trends driving innovation and transformation in legal operations and performance management
  • Why systems of record are not enough to drive operational improvements and why traditional enterprise legal management (ELM) systems fall short
  • The evolving role of legal and why process, workflow and collaboration are critical for legal departments to succeed.
  • The existing ELM vendor landscape and why e-billing and matter management technology only represent a fraction of a legal department’s needs

Follow Onit on Twitter to stay up-to-date with us at the conference. We’ll keep you posted on when and where to join us. It’s not too late to register to attend, click here for more details.

The Plain and Simple Facts about Enterprise Legal Management

To get started, let’s first start with a few definitions:

  • The term Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) was coined about 12 years ago to connote broad support of everything that Legal Departments are involved with. The term is also practically defined and referred to as simply Matter & Spend Management.
  • Matter Management is essentially the database that legal project information is stored in, such as parties, details, vendors, etc.
  • Spend Management is the system that handles the electronic invoices, runs business rules against the line items providing audit and validation functions. It’s also the system where financial analytics are run.

Matter and Spend Management are foundational but represent just a fraction of the needs of a corporate legal department. Learn more about Legal Service Requests, Legal Holds, Contract Management, and NDAs.

The Benefits of ELM Solutions for Your Corporate Legal Department

Law departments must provide better service to their businesses and improve operational efficiency:

“In addition to the responsibility of managing documents, e-billing, matters and outside counsel, it’s equally important for corporate legal departments to be involved in business processes and continuously optimize the organization’s processes to improve business performance against goals and objectives. In an enterprise legal management context, BPM includes the automation of manual processes through methods such as workflow and collaboration functionality.” – Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Legal Management, 23 Oct. 2013

The future is now and with the proliferation of enterprise solutions that respond to the full range of business needs, it has become increasingly hard for organizations to justify selecting or retaining an aging ELM system.

ELM solutions from Onit are flexible, lightweight, easy-to-use, and directly provide increased operational efficiency and decreased IT labor. We help corporate legal departments keep their practices and businesses running more efficiently.

This isn’t just a trend. Gartner predictions from the Feb. 2016 Market Guide Report suggest that the adoption of ELM solutions will increase from 20 to 50% by 2020. Get ahead of the technology curve and save your team some time by implementing early on.

Learn more about how Onit’s can customize solutions just for your corporate legal department. Schedule a demo with us today or check out our additional reading on ELM below.

Enterprise Legal Management Needs to Grow Up
4 ELM Code Phrases to Fear
Ten Things You Need to Know About Enterprise Apps and How They Relate to ELM
The New Technology Curve
The 4 Axioms of Enterprise Legal Management

West Coast Here We Come: Onit and Industry Thought Leaders Share Best Practices at Legaltech West Coast

We are getting pumped for Legaltech West Coast, June 13-14. There’s still time left to register. You don’t want to miss out, there are some great speakers and sessions scheduled. Join us for our session “Evaluating and Implementing eBilling and Matter Management Solutions” led by Onit’s Chris Driver.

Our distinguished guest panelists includes Christine Coats (Oracle Vice President, Legal Operations), Mary O’Carroll (Google Inc., Head of Legal Operations), Lisa Konie (Adobe Systems Incorporated, Senior Director, Legal Operations), Joe Surprenant (SunPower, Corporation Director, Legal Operations).

We’ll be covering topics such as:

  • Evaluation points
  • eBilling best practices for validation rules, onboarding outside counsel and gaining law department support
  • Alternative billing arrangements; Obtaining buy-in from outside counsel
  • Protecting confidential information
  • Administering invoices and expenses

We can’t wait to see you there and talk more in depth about matter management and ebilling. Learn more about Onit and how to make your legal department run smoother with automation. Follow us on Twitter for more updates from Onit and to stay connected during the conference. Feel free to tag us in any posts from the #LTWC trade show. We’ll see you soon!

Legal Department Operations Made Easy with Onit: Tools for the 21st Century

Your corporate legal department is functioning fine, why rock the boat? By automating tasks with Onit’s solutions you can save time and easily communicate with members of your team. From matter management to e-billing to legal spend management, Onit has a solution that can help!

Worried about draining your IT resources? While traditional enterprise legal management (ELM) systems require constant IT maintenance and attention, Onit’s solutions are lean and nimble and tend to work in a more straightforward manner. In many cases, users can configure, deploy and support enterprise Apps with no corporate IT involvement.

We’ve automated 200+ processes for legal departments and we can help with: 

  • Contract Management
  • Legal Holds
  • Legal Service Requests
  • NDA Review & Approval
  • Enterprise Legal Management
  • E-billing
  • Matter Management
  • MSA Review
  • Legal Project Management
  • Contract Administration
  • Document Management
  • Service of Process
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Legal Process Outsourcing

Looking to automate some process in your Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) department? Onit can help with that too! We have clients that are successfully using Onit’s solutions to assist with: 

  • Incident Management
  • Insider Trading Management
  • Business Partner Termination
  • Incident Reporting
  • Director & Officer Appointment and Revocation
  • Gift / Hospitality Tracking
  • 10-Q/K Reporting
  • EEOC Compliance Management
  • SOX Controls
  • Trademark Registration & Renewal

Not seeing what you need on that list? Luckily, Onit has the ability to customize solutions for your corporate legal department’s specific tasks. It probably seems like this is too good to be true but check out our Customer Success Stories. We’ve worked very hard on our solutions and have focused on every detail so our Apps are top of the line.

We’d love to talk with you more about your legal department’s needs. Click here to schedule a one-on-one conversation to learn more.