Legal Commentary

Datacert says its new Passport legal business management system for corporate counsel serves as a centralized work space, helping general counsel teams access relevant company data and collaborate with colleagues.

Passport features Datacert?s legal matter management and spending tools, which support risk and compliance management, and help companies manage and reduce legal costs. The system integrates with existing software used in accounts payable, document management, intellectual property management, e-discovery, and more.

Users can access data while working in Microsoft Outlook, explained Mark Poag, Datacert's general counsel and senior vice president of marketing for the Texas-based company. With its collaboration website, in-house and outside counsel can share invoices, matter updates, budgets, timekeeper rates, and accruals, he said.

The product was unveiled Sept. 29 during the Datacert-sponsored "Generals of the Revolution" conference in New York, featuring author Richard Susskind. Jeff Novak, general counsel of AOL Paid Services, and Richard Baer, GC and CAO of Qwest Communications, said their companies have purchased Passport.

- Heather Schultz, assistant editor, Law Technology News