Ogletree Deakins Launches Online Innovations Center Offering Clients Technology and Compliance Tools

ATLANTA – October 5, 2015 – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, announced today that the firm has launched an Innovations center on its website, which will serve in-house counsel’s and human resources professionals’ needs for technology and tools related to compliance with federal and state laws, litigation, legal project management, and workplace training. 

“The Innovations center is about connecting clients, technology, and processes to deliver sound legal services more efficiently,” said Kim Ebert, managing shareholder of Ogletree Deakins. “This strongly aligns with our focus on and anticipation of our clients’ needs and is the continued evolution of the value and service we provide our clients.”

“We’ve built the Innovations center with a focus on making our clients’ lives easier,” said Patrick DiDomenico, director of knowledge management at Ogletree Deakins. “The tools in the center allow clients to collaborate with our attorneys to develop creative business solutions that ensure quality, consistency, and efficiency and can translate to real savings.”

The Innovations center, which is a robust combination of proprietary knowledge management tools and compliance solutions, was developed to help in-house counsel, human resources professionals, and frontline supervisors solve complex and thorny compliance issues. The offerings include:

Clientlink: An extranet platform that includes secure, custom-built collaboration sites that provide web-based access to all documents, data, and reporting needed to effectively track the progress of a matter.

IntelliCase: A proprietary web-based tool that enables employers to track their agency discrimination charges and manage the risk of escalation to litigation, providing real-time individual charge management data and aggregate actionable intelligence while limiting legal spend.   

Ogletree Deakins Advantage™: An innovative legal service delivery model that fulfills all of an employer’s labor and employment needs, provides client education programs, as well as other value-added services, all at a predictable price.

Ogletree Deakins Blueprint™: A legal project management service that provides realistic budgets and plans to better manage matters to an employer’s desired resolution, through support from dedicated legal project managers and a legal project management software tool. 

Ogletree Deakins campaign app: An employer’s ability to communicate through mobile devices—and mobile apps—during union organizing attempts is crucial. The Ogletree Deakins campaign app is customized to each client’s needs during pre-petition or post-petition organizing. Employers may also utilize the app to communicate with employees as part of a positive employee relations program.

O-D Comply: User-friendly subscription-based solution to keep employers in compliance on the most common multi-state issues. O-D Comply provides employers what they need to meet today’s requirements, as well as automatic updates on the latest legal developments, arming employers with the proactive tools they need to stay in compliance with fluid state and federal laws.

Ogletree Deakins Learning Solutions: Ogletree Deakins’ official training platform, which delivers customized programs aligned with an employer’s strategic goals. Ogletree Deakins’ Learning Solutions team offers trainings on a full range of labor and employment law topics and in a variety of online and in-person formats.

About Ogletree Deakins

Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management in all types of employment-related legal matters. The firm has 750 attorneys located in 48 offices across the United States, in Europe, and in Mexico. Ogletree Deakins has been named a Law Firm of the Year four consecutive years by U.S. News – Best Lawyers^® “Best Law Firms.” In 2015, the publication named Ogletree Deakins its “Law Firm of the Year” in the Labor Law – Management category. In addition to handling labor and employment law matters, the firm has thriving practices focused on business immigration, employee benefits, and workplace safety and health law. Ogletree Deakins represents a diverse range of clients, from small businesses to Fortune 50 companies. www.ogletreedeakins.com