Onit Launches New Product to Automate Legal and Business Processes

HOUSTON, TX — (MARKETWIRE) — 06/24/11 — Onit, Inc., a leading provider of online project, process, and legal spend management tools for business and legal professionals, today announced the launch of Onit Process®. Designed to streamline how legal departments operate, Onit Process is the only tool that extends legal services to the rest of the organization making data collection simple and easy. Onit Process is ideal for employees because they can request legal services in a few clicks and track their request online. Law departments benefit because it significantly drives productivity and efficiency and empowers legal departments to provide prompt service to its clients and vendors.

“All legal departments, regardless of their size, have processes for everything to do — whether it’s hiring a law firm, terminating an employee, reviewing a contract or submitting a trademark request,” commented, Eric M. Elfman, CEO and President, Onit. “Most of these processes are manual and paper intensive. Onit Process makes it easy for all employees to request legal services and track the status of their request. Think about it like a legal front office similar to an HR front office where you check the status of your health benefits, flexible spending or 401K investments.”

See Ken & Ted Interact with Onit Process

Watch this short video to see how Onit Process helps Ted (a general counsel) and Ken (a sales manager) collaborate on a contract.

How Does Onit Process Work?

Onit Process lets employees request legal services by using a series of process links. These links can live on a legal department’s home page, a shared drive like an intranet or SharePoint site or can be hosted by Onit. A process in Onit is a combination of a form or forms, a wizard for data entry and collection, and workflow that can be either fixed or variable. A homepage link to a process opens a custom, user-friendly form to collect the information that the legal department needs to begin addressing a legal request.

Onit Process Features

Onit Process enables legal staff members to manage their workload outside of email, spreadsheets and phone conversations. Additional Onit Process features include:

• Process Automation – All legal and business processes can be automated in Onit Process.
• Customization – Custom legal forms can be created specific to your legal department.
• Workflow – Fixed or variable workflow can be created by the project type, scope or budget.
• Collaboration – Communicating with colleagues inside your legal department is as simple as filling out a form and requesting legal services.
• Legal Front Office – All employees regardless of their department or location can request legal services with simple, easy-to-use online forms.
• Manage Resources – Onit Process drives productivity. It’s easy to initiate legal work and your legal staff is not buried in email.

Pricing & Availability

Onit Process is available immediately and comes with templates for standard processes. Processes can also be customized and pricing is based on the number of processes and/or complexity of the workflow. For more information about Onit Process or to schedule a demo, please contact [email protected].

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise legal management software. Launched in early 2010, Onit is a light-weight online project management and business collaboration tool for legal and business professionals. With project management, process management, and spend management features, Onit is an ideal collaborative platform to unify legal knowledge between legal departments and their law firms. Onit also offers full project planning functionality, document management, and enterprise-class security. Using Onit, legal and business teams can manage multiple projects — all within the same view, all at the same time. Onit is a simple, easy-to-use tool that doesn’t require any software to download. For more information, visit www.onit.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.