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ELM Solutions Product Information

Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) Solutions by Wolters Kluwer is a market-leading suite of software and services designed to optimize legal spend, matter management, analytics, and AI-powered reviews for corporate legal departments and law firms. ELM Solutions provides end-to-end tools to manage legal operations, procurement, and claims, enabling better governance, cost control, and data-driven decision making across legal functions.


Key Offerings

  • Legal Spend Management: capture, control, and optimize legal spend across matters, vendors, and external counsel.
  • Matter Management: end-to-end matter lifecycle management, from intake to resolution.
  • AI Legal Bill Review: automated, accurate review and analytics of legal invoices to improve billing efficiency and reduce costs.
  • Legal Analytics: actionable insights from large-scale invoice and matter data to benchmark performance and drive improvements.
  • Enterprise Legal Management Platform: integrated tools designed for corporate legal departments, claims teams, and legal service providers.
  • Training and Professional Services: onboarding, implementation, and ongoing support to ensure successful adoption.

How It Works

  1. Define governance and data model. Set up matter categories, rates, vendors, and approval workflows.
  2. Capture and consolidate data. Invoices, matter records, contracts, and related documents are ingested into the ELM system.
  3. Automate processing. AI bill review analyzes invoices, flags anomalies, and provides recommended actions.
  4. Analyze and act. Use dashboards and analytics to monitor spend, vendor performance, and risk across the legal portfolio.
  5. Optimize operations. Leverage insights to negotiate better rates, improve matter outcomes, and reduce cycle times.

Core Capabilities

  • Legal Spend Management: end-to-end tracking and optimization of external legal costs
  • Matter Management: comprehensive lifecycle management for legal matters
  • AI Legal Bill Review: AI-powered analysis with accompanying insights and recommendations
  • Legal Analytics & Benchmarking: data-driven insights from large-scale legal data
  • Compliance and Risk Management: governance features to meet regulatory and internal controls
  • Billing, Invoicing, and Payment Management: streamlined financial workflows
  • Vendor and Outside Counsel Management: performance dashboards and engagement controls
  • Knowledge Management: centralized access to precedents, templates, and research
  • Reporting and Dashboards: real-time visibility into KPIs and ROI
  • Integration and Extensibility: connect with ERP, CRM, and other enterprise systems

Who It's For

  • Corporate legal departments seeking to reduce spend and increase efficiency
  • Claims and risk management teams needing better visibility into legal matters
  • Law firms and legal service providers delivering services to corporations
  • Compliance and procurement teams collaborating with legal to manage vendor relationships

Why Choose ELM Solutions

  • Market-leading capabilities for legal spend and matter management
  • AI-powered bill review and analytics that unlock cost savings and efficiency
  • End-to-end platform with governance, risk, and compliance features
  • Extensive partner ecosystem and professional services to support deployment

Getting Started

  • Explore the ELM Solutions suite to identify the modules that align with your legal operations goals.
  • Contact Wolters Kluwer for a demonstration and a tailored implementation plan.
  • Leverage training resources and ongoing support to maximize value from the platform.

Safety and Compliance Considerations

  • Data security and confidentiality are paramount; ensure appropriate access controls and data handling practices.
  • Align use of AI bill review and analytics with legal and regulatory requirements in your jurisdiction.

Core Features

  • Legal Spend Management
  • Matter Management
  • AI Legal Bill Review
  • Legal Analytics
  • Enterprise Legal Management Platform
  • Training and Professional Services