Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions Recognizes Legal Innovators At Annual User Conference

Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions today announced that Scott Fuller of Applied Materials and Tariq Abdullah of Walmart are the honorees of its first ever Legal Innovator Awards. The awards recognize forward-thinking individuals within corporate legal and claims departments who have transformed and enhanced their organizations’ legal operations and were presented at ELM Solutions’ User Conference which is being held this week in Orlando.

“We are proud to present our inaugural Legal Innovators Awards to such accomplished legal professionals,” said Jonah Paransky, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions. “Shining a spotlight on these legal operations professionals’ significant achievements will inspire others to leverage technology in new and unique ways to deliver maximum value to their organizations.”

As Director of Legal Operations at Applied Materials, Scott Fuller has devised innovative uses for the data that Applied Materials collects with ELM Solutions’ TyMetrix^® 360º solution. He uses reporting and dashboards in creative ways to identify and address emerging legal operational challenges in his organization. This allows him to focus on driving better legal and business outcomes for Applied Materials.

Tariq Abdullah has created a strategic legal technology roadmap for Walmart using ELM Solutions’ Passport® platform that implements automated workflows to help deliver more efficient and predictable legal services. Tariq has helped Walmart create a set of custom benchmarks that facilitate insights and understanding of the organization’s legal data with more granularity.

Also at the conference Wolters Kluwer announced the release of Law Firm Smart Select functionality for its Passport® Claims Defense solution. Passport Claims Defense is an e-billing and matter management software solution for Property & Casual insurers, their claims professionals, and staff counsel, and it now connects users with global legal billing data from the company’s LegalVIEW® database. “This enables insurance claims and litigation professionals to analyze the industry’s largest set of benchmarks spend data alongside their own internal metrics to ensure they are assigning cases to law firms best suited to manage them at the most effective cost,” Wolters Kluwer said in a statement.

Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions develops market-leading enterprise spend and matter management, analytics, and legal operations solutions for large corporate legal and insurance claims departments.

In August Corporate Vision magazine bestowed its Best Enterprise Legal Management Platform Award upon Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions. This is the second consecutive year that Wolters Kluwer has triumphed in the magazine’s Technology Innovator Awards series that celebrates excellence and innovation in technology.

In May, Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions also announced that Passport Office Companion had earned a Silver Stevie Award for New Product or Service of the Year – Software – Integration Solution in the 2017 American Business Awards competition.