Minter Ellison is focused on delivering innovative legal services and maintaining its reputation as a leader in case management technology. To support our clients in this area, we have established a separate company, liift.

The liift platform is a hosted system and provides tailored legal transaction management solutions for our clients, regardless of location or existing IT infrastructure.

What is liift?

Liift is an award-winning workflow system that cost-effectively supports our lawyers in the efficient and proactive management of transactions. Solutions are provided to support a range of legal applications, from medical negligence claims and property settlements, to dispute management and franchising renewals.

The technical platform won the Australian Legal Practice Management Association's National Innovation Award in 2004 for solutions development utilising case management systems.

Since 2003, liift has been successfully implemented in Australia and the UK. In South Australia, the liift system is used to:

• handle the SA WorkCover Corporation's disputed claims
• manage workflows for the SA Department of Health’s medical negligence claims management scheme, and
• manage property transactions for the South Australian Housing Trust and other property developments.

What are the features?

The liift platform features simple navigation that typically includes:

• a dashboard view of events – this is a dynamic reporting tool that uses Adobe Flash to display up-to-date information and trends
• easy-to-use instruction forms for information logging – information can also be logged by phone, fax or email
• dynamic maps – easy to view reports that display key information by location
• a file summary – a way to monitor key matter and case workflow records
• task lists – these provide a summary of all actions needed at any point in time
• a range of reports – providing defined users with the ability to review and share key case and other management data on each event and transaction, and
• a risk matrix – these capture incidents and their ratings on corporate risk registers, providing a snapshot of key risk points and unidentified hazards.

What are the benefits?

By using liift, which automates file management, records administration and reporting, our lawyers are able to focus on providing legal services. This combination of technology, content and legal practice has resulted in significant client benefits including:

• significant reduction in legal fees
• cost-certainty, with set pre-defined fees applied to each event
• improved management of assets and liabilities, for example intellectual property and insurance claims resulting in flow on benefits such as defining commercial value and reducing contingent liabilities respectively
• improved legal outcomes, as lawyers are free to focus on legal issues
• enhanced consistency and quality, as liift features automatic procedures and protocols that are based on legislative rules, governance standards and other management information requirements, and
• transparency of actions and related legal services, due to enhanced management control gained through immediate access to online information.

Contact us

or a personal demonstration on how this innovative case management technology can help your business move forward, please contact:

Campbell Woskett, Chief Executive – liift
T: +61 8 8233 5785 
campbell.woskett@liift.com.au

Click here to visit the liift website.