D-ROOM®

Deacons B2B capability, D-ROOM®, provides you with on-line access to a sophisticated document management system, allowing you to manage your legal requirements in “real time” and in concert with the Deacons team. Your team and Deacons, work seamlessly with shared knowledge.

D-ROOM® gives you access to your legal files, precedents and knowledge of the work-in-progress whenever you may need it and at a time that is convenient to you. With D-ROOM®, you have entry to a tailored and secure on-line legal data system.

D-ROOM® gives you full control and access to all your legal matters, at no capital cost to you. It gives you complete knowledge of the status of current matters (e.g. hours incurred, individuals working on your matters, etc...) allowing you to accurately and more efficiently manage your business.

D-ROOM® contains

• all legal advice, matters, precedents - current and past
• information on Deacons staff working on your matters, including contact details and charge out rates
• current and historic billing information - outstanding bills, fees incurred to date (hours worked and details of adviser, updated on a daily basis), and a list of all current matters by business unit and key adviser within Deacons
• access to pro forma precedents tailored for your business
• Deacons publications, including newsletters and seminar papers
• manuals and other reference materials of use, jointly by you and the Deacons team
• web links to key legislation, regulatory bodies, industry bodies and journals relevant to you

D-ROOM® benefits

• delivers access to a document management system - the same system used by your Deacons team - at no capital cost to your business
• full control and knowledge of all your legal matters - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - at your discretion
• secure document generation and total version control, avoiding confusion as to the latest version of the document
• full discretion as to whom in your team can access the system and version areas of D-ROOM®
• an on-line forum for generation of ideas and creativity through on-line collaboration
• D-ROOM® has been designed to support the leading Web browsers, for example, Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 4 upwards) and Netscape (version 4 upwards) – which means the browsers are already familiar to all web users.