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NEW YORK and HOUSTON – January 29, 2018 — Onit, a leading provider of enterprise legal management and business process automation solutions, today announced its latest enhancements to the legal hold solution. Designed with specifications from an industry-leading audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services firm, the Onit legal hold solution is now more user-friendly, highly repeatable and defensible.

“Our enhanced solution is ideal for legal departments that need a way to quickly issue legal hold notifications and manage custodian acknowledgments,” commented Eric M. Elfman, co-founder and CEO of Onit.”Designed with usability in mind, team members now have real-time access to collection requests and can see when actions are issued, which are in progress and which need immediate attention. All legal hold correspondence is fully auditable and gives your legal team easy accessibility, creating transparency that was previously not available.”

The new wizard-based approach takes the user through the entire legal hold process – from hold creation, adding custodians, selection of the preservation notice, reminder schedules, and questionnaires through the highly intuitive and user-friendly Onit interface. The solution also contains a complete log of every activity taking place in the solution at every level of the process. This added level of transparency provides a complete audit trail throughout the legal hold process and allows users to track historical data for every legal hold. Every action in the system is logged on the front end of the system and independently stored; making the process even more defensible. The increased control at the front-end of the system (such as reviewing reminders, building templates, and setting notification schedules) provides an enhanced user experience.

The new solution also offers four unique ways to add custodians, again setting Onit apart from other competitors. Now, users can add custodians through bulk import, a multi-select drop down, by department or business unit and lastly by writing in custodians.

Additional new features of the Onit legal hold solution include:

• Custom fields and pick lists that can be added to a legal hold memo
• Custom questionnaires that can be created based on the type of legal hold
• Helper text guiding the user through the legal hold creation process
• A progress status bar indicating where the legal hold is in the creation process (i.e. 1% complete, 50% complete, 75% complete, etc.)
• Preservation notices can ingest values from any number of configured data fields (ex. claimant, claim description, source locations, etc.)
• Existing legal holds can be used as templates for the expeditious creation of future holds
• A legal hold(s) summary report is available within the matter through a printer-friendly single click
• Seamless integrations with existing matter management solutions, human resource information systems, single sign on and Active Directory

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

HOUSTON — January 23, 2018 — Onit, a leading provider of enterprise legal management and business process automation solutions, today announced that Gogo, the leader in commercial and business aviation broadband connectivity, is now using Onit’s Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions. By leveraging Onit’s technology, Gogo has dramatically streamlined its legal invoicing and contracting processes, facilitated better collaboration within its legal team and improved monitoring of its overall legal spend.

“It’s an honor to add Gogo to our rapidly growing list of satisfied clients. It’s also worth pointing out that the Gogo implementation was not only highly successful for everyone involved, but it was also a rather unique one,” says Eric M. Elfman, founder and CEO of Onit. “After going live with the ELM solution, they also implemented our contract lifecycle management (CLM) solution. The CLM solution was essentially ‘layered’ on top of their ELM system. Users can quickly switch back and forth between ELM and CLM at any time. The implementation team went their usual extra mile on this project, and I am extremely pleased with their accomplishment at Gogo.”

Gogo, a company providing superior connectivity and entertainment in the aircraft industry, first went live with Onit’s ELM solution in late 2017. Their ELM solution is not only a system of engagement, but also comprehensive and highly flexible in the sense that additions can be made quickly. Shortly after going live with ELM, they were able to extend the Onit platform and implement a robust contract lifecycle management system in a few short weeks. With these solutions up and running successfully, the implementation process itself was also one of the better ones.

About Gogo
Gogo is the Inflight Internet Company. We are the leading global provider of broadband connectivity products and services for aviation. We design and source innovative network solutions that connect aircraft to the Internet and we develop customizable services for our aviation partners. Once connected, we provide industry leading reliability around the world. Our mission is to help aviation go farther by making planes fly smarter, so our aviation partners perform better and their passengers travel happier.

You can find Gogo’s products and services on thousands of aircraft operated by the leading global commercial airlines and thousands of private aircraft, including those of the largest fractional ownership operators. Gogo is headquartered in Chicago, Ill., with additional facilities in Broomfield, Colo., and locations across the globe. Connect with us at business.gogoair.com.   

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

About the Session

Please join Onit and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) for their joint speaking session at Legal Tech New York. We invite you to participate as Anna-Lisa Corrales and Cole Morgan discuss the implementation of enterprise legal management (ELM) and the subsequent transformation of JLR’s legal department.

It’s time to let the legal department do what it does best – the “real” work of handling legal matters. And they can’t do this if they’re spending endless hours on day-to-day tasks that could be handled in seconds with the right ELM solution. Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) story reflects this common dilemma that haunts many legal departments, and how they ultimately solved it.

JLR’s U.S. General Counsel Anna-Lisa Corrales will discuss her partnership with Onit, and how they drove change in the legal department with process efficiencies and technology to better manage legal operations and legal spend.

Topics of discussion will include:

• Reasons why JLR needed a premier ELM solution, and why Onit was their partner of choice
• Their successful partnership with Onit in building, testing and deploying e-billing and matter management technology
• How they effectively leveraged IT business partners “early” in the process to realize their implementation goals
• Early results from gaining visibility into their legal spend (i.e operational and financial results)
• Lessons learned from the selection and implementation process
• Success: The transformation to finally being able to do more legal work than billing and matter management

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

HOUSTON, January 9, 2018 – Onit, a leading provider of enterprise legal management and business process automation solutions, is pleased to announce it has received special recognition of its Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions in the 2017 MarketView™ Report on Enterprise Legal Management by Hyperion Research, a leading analyst-based market research firm covering the ELM market. Onit was recognized as a Market Leader in the categories of process automation and enterprise apps and Highly Innovative for its system architecture.

According to the report, “Onit’s vision closely aligns with market demand for a more fulfilling and dynamic user experience. Onit is positioned as a disruptive alternative to the traditional ELM ecosystem…the company’s rapid growth and market acceleration speaks strongly to the enthusiastic reception of its innovative ELM paradigm across the legal ops spectrum.”

“We couldn’t be happier about being recognized again by Hyperion Research,” commented Eric M. Elfman, founder and CEO of Onit. “We’ve been working diligently for our customers and Hyperion’s MarketView^TM report is excellent validation that we’ve gone above and beyond in meeting that objective.”

The report continues by stating, “Onit carries a strong ELM pedigree, including the founders of a well-known ELM vendor. Rooted in the principals of business process management (BPM), Onit uses a workflow-based approach to drive corporate legal operations. The system allows users to create and incorporate the discrete capabilities and components of a broader enterprise system ‘as they need them.’”

In its detailed evaluation of Onit, Hyperion underscored some key advantages of the company, “In a direct challenge to the prevailing matter management model, which Onit believes encumbers companies with outsize investments in large applications with features they may not want and won’t use, Onit presents a familiar app-based approach to legal operations management by breaking up ELM into individual task-based solutions and processes.” Further endorsing Onit’s leadership in this market, Hyperion also stated, “Onit’s matter and spend management apps themselves offer the strong functionality one would expect from a leading system.”

In their assessment of Onit Enterprise, Hyperion gave special recognition to the following capabilities:

PROCESS AUTOMATION: Workflow-centric approach that seeks to deconstruct matter management into independent, collaborative functional lifecycles that lawyers and operations managers use on a regular basis; a la carte model empowers users to add capabilities and components as needed.

ENTERPRISE APPS: Capitalizing on the broad applicability of workflow-based task management, Onit is not afraid of expanding into functional areas outside of legal and aggressively solicits customer needs to write custom applications for other corporate-wide departments.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE: Modern architecture showcases class-leading technology and a decidedly SaaS-based approach to legal business application management. Flexible and agile, Onit is designed for rapid deployment, flexibility and agility.

The Hyperion MarketView^TM Report is oriented towards the solution needs of corporate legal departments of all sizes that are seeking integrated solutions that include modern capabilities in spend management, collaboration, workflow and advanced analytics. The report focuses on solutions capable of global law department support and integrated solutions that address the needs of ELM, and includes trends in the solution market and a review and assessment of advanced solution providers. For additional information about this report, please visit the Hyperion Research website at elm.hgp-marketview.com, or contact them via email at [email protected].

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

HOUSTON, December 4, 2017 – The American Marketing Association, Houston Chapter, has identified Onit as one of 54 finalists for 20 different industry-based award categories for the 2017 Marketer of the Year Awards, December 4, 2017 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

The American Marketing Association’s Marketer of the Year Award (MOTY) recognizes marketing teams across Texas for their yearly marketing initiatives. MOTY distinguishes the top performers in the Texas marketing community for doing what they do best: branding a company, reaching a new audience, growing the business and changing perceptions. At the award ceremony, one finalist will be announced as the overall Marketer of the Year.

To be nominated for the award, Onit was asked questions about their marketing initiatives, the challenges they faced in their industry and how they worked together as a team and contributed to the overall success of their organization.

“I’m thrilled that our company has made the AMA Marketer of the Year finalist list,” says Eric M. Elfman, founder and CEO of Onit. “I’m proud of the accomplishments that our marketing team has made during 2017. As a serial entrepreneur, I can say from experience that it’s rare to have this unparalleled level of marketing expertise available to me. It’s a distinct honor for Onit to be considered for this prestigious award this year.”

In addition to the overall and categorical winners, this year Sysco will present a new sponsored award called the Sysco Innovator Award. This new award recognizes an individual or company for vision, purpose, resourcefulness and innovation with regards to marketing.

To purchase tickets to the event, visit www.amamoty.org.

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

HOUSTON, November 29, 2017 – Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise legal management and business process automation solutions, is excited to unveil its new user interface (UI). The new interface is built on ReactJS and leverages the speed of JavaScript and uses a new way of rendering web pages, making them highly dynamic and responsive to user input.

The new user interface will accelerate user adoption, improve usability and increase productivity. By focusing on the user experience of all team members (knowledge workers, managers, developers, testers, etc.), the interface is more intuitive and delivers faster access to content when necessary.

“We’re very excited about this new UI,” says Eric M. Elfman, founder and CEO of Onit. “Our team has been working tirelessly on this initiative and it’s now available. The new interface is not only a better user experience, but is also an incredible timesaver for developers allowing them to work faster and save significant time by reusing code components. An additional feature of the open-source library is ongoing development among its users allowing open contributions.”

Some of the key features of ReactJS library include:

• A more responsive, modern and intuitive design
• An improved user experience for transaction creation and editing workflows
• More efficient site navigation and grid filtering
• Faster page loading
• The ability to more quickly fix bugs, make upgrades, and spin up new features to support our customer’s business process needs

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

HOUSTON, November 7, 2017 – Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise legal management and business process automation solutions, today announced the official launch of its new corporate website. The new website embodies not only current best practices in design and execution, but delivers an exceptional visitor experience that beckons a second, deeper look. Contemporary technology-focused images and graphics reflect the cutting-edge nature of Onit’s company culture and innovative technology.

“We definitely wanted to create a more aesthetic, cutting-edge, interactive experience for visitors, using clean design principles,” commented Eric M. Elfman, co-founder and CEO of Onit. “We also had a strong desire to clearly communicate our expertise and thought leadership in this growing field of enterprise legal management and business process automation. It was also important that our corporate website accurately reflect our company’s extensive growth over the past several years.”

Equally important, the website’s intuitive navigation and page configuration make the visitor’s exploration of the site seamless. An interactive timeline demonstrating Onit’s dedication and innovation in the industry, along with showcasing its software solutions, rounds out the extraordinary user experience. The new website also boasts featured content including blog posts, podcasts, white papers and eBooks.

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Launched in early 2011, Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support.

Businesses have processes for everything — whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper intensive and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

About David Cambria

David Cambria is the Global Director of Operations – Law, Compliance and Government Relations for Archer Daniels Midland Company. An attorney and proven leader with broad business, legal and technology experience, he engages and influences stakeholders across organizations to realize improved business outcomes and returns on investment.  He continually seeks out the “voice” of employees, clients, end users and executives to gain insight necessary in formulating the vision, strategy and action plans for technology-enabled process improvement and organizational transformation.

David is a thought leader in legal operations and enterprise legal management and has published numerous articles on technology and innovation in the legal industry. Under his leadership in 2017, Archer Daniels Midland Company won the Transatlantic Legal Department of the Year and was awarded a Value Champion by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). He is a founding member of Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) and the ACC’s section on Legal Operations as well as the co-founder of the Forum on Legal Evolution.

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21st  century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements.  By focusing on process, Onit; solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800- 281-1330.

Onit is delighted to be participating in ILTACON 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas on Tuesday, August 15.

ILTACON is the premier educational and networking event for the legal sector. Drawing on the personal and collective strengths of law firm and law department professionals, ILTACON is the best place to learn what works, what doesn’t and what’s next in legal technology. Through a variety of session formats, topic experts deliver examples, inspiration and takeaways that can be applied to the challenges and opportunities you face within your team, your organization and the industry. This four-day event features extensive networking opportunities and educational content inspired by and developed by peers, with a volunteer planning committee that works collaboratively with peers, vendors and experts to ensure each session provides value to a variety of professional roles.

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Launched in early 2011, Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support.

Businesses have processes for everything — whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper intensive and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.