Opus 2 Counsel

Overview

Harmonise your whole case portfolio with Opus 2 Counsel. Our secure, cloud-based solution enables you work more efficiently and gain greater independence and consistency across all your cases.

Start working in your own private workspace from the outset and seamlessly transition to the shared workspace, along with all your work product when the solicitor team is prepared, closer to the hearing.

With Opus 2 Counsel, you can reduce the pain of manual, repetitive tasks. Achieve greater visibility of your deliverables, enabling effective management of the billing and commercial aspects of your practice without creating additional administrative overhead, leaving you free to focus on the substantive issues of your case.

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Chronology

Chronology enables the creation of complete case timelines, the backbone of any dispute, with links to all the underlying facts and evidence involved. It enables users to instantly create visualisations, comprising of key events linked to all the underlying evidence, displayed in a chronological timeline allowing point by point case building.

Such visualisations paint a clearer picture and flesh out key details and connections. Fact-based chronologies can be created in seconds from the available data. Powerful filtering tools allow users to focus on specific issues and evidence and instantly visualise event specific timelines.

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Document analysis

Document analysis allows you to bring all your key case documents together in one place, reducing the possibility of duplication of documents and mitigating risk associated with using multiple pieces of software and document sharing tools. With our built-in document analysis tools, you can analyse documents, page by page in a split screen view or manually select documents to appear in multiple tabs in your browser, making it simpler to annotate and evaluate multiple reliant documents.

Whilst reviewing the documents, there is the capability to split documents into smaller more relevant documents, as well as the tools to re-organising, re-name and manipulate when required.

Characters offer an interactive environment where meaningful connections can be created and revisited. Create character-specific visualisations to analyse data with greater flexibility. Characters provide the user with enhanced witness management capability, enabling more efficient time management and planning.

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In-document annotation and collaboration

Rich in-document annotation and collaboration capabilities gives the user the capability to tag, annotate and mark up documents using a modern version of “post-it notes” or highlighting.

Text selection can be identified and tagged, creating a link directly to a piece of text within a document, alternatively documents can be linked together and can be referenced when needed.

Notes can be private to the user or shared across groups of users or even every user assigned to the particular case.

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Bundle

Simple, efficient bundle creation is imperative for any case. With Opus 2 Counsel, a separate document collection can be created inside of a case, and documents can easily be moved into the collection (this will become the bundle).

Documents can be renamed, reordered and moved into the relevant folders of the bundle. These folders become the bookmarks for the bundle and support the automatic creation of index pages.

The output is a fully paginated, searchable, selectable indexed bundle in a PDF format, which can be shared with any third party as a clean or marked up PDF bundle.

Other features

Case management

Portfolio visibility of active cases

Activity dashboards

Centralised hosting

Paperless platform

GDPR compliant

No IT infrastructure requirements

Cloud-based solution

Highly secure ISO-accreditation

Key benefits

Autonomy and control

Define your own best practice and preferences and apply that consistently across all cases. With Opus 2 Counsel, you no longer need to wait for the solicitor team to arrange access to a project workspace, you have the autonomy and freedom to decide how you want to work.

Simplify administrative workflows

Reduce the administrative overhead for you and your clerk by giving them controlled access to your workspaces. Create new projects, organise your documents or carry out specific instructions. With built-in integration, you can manage many tasks directly from Opus 2 Verdict and be automatically notified as your case progresses, enabling seamless management of your billing.

Work in a streamlined way

Reduce administration tasks so you can work in a more streamlined way with your clerk and co-counsel. All your documents are stored and shared in one, secure place, which aids in reducing instances of high-risk email attachments and file transfers. When needed you can bring your co-counsel together for larger projects and collaborate seamlessly anywhere, anytime.

Reduce the reliance on multiple tools

Minimise the need for multiple disjointed tools for different tasks such as bundling and chronology. Consistent and familiar UI eliminates the need to learn and keep up to speed as different tools change or update, allowing barristers to remain focused on the case.

Automate manual, repetitive tasks

Improve your efficiency by reducing the reliance on and time-consuming tasks such as scanning, printing and annotating hard-copy documents. With Opus 2 Counsel, our purpose-built features make it simple to develop and update chronologies, develop intuitive bundles and carry out custom reporting all on one, easy-to-use platform.

Secure, proven technology

Your security and privacy are essential to Opus 2. Our proven, secure, cloud-based technology solution is fully browser-based so there is no need for additional software installation or VPN setup. We are an ISO:27001 certified organisation, committed to the security and privacy of our customers and their data.

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