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Mobile workflows for lawyers
LINK is designed for lawyers. View an NRL or NetDocs link in email, compare documents in DMS, check-out a doc, edit or annotate it and check it in to DMS.
LINK makes critical workflows easy from smartphones and tablets.
Click on the icons below or scroll down the page to learn how LINK enables lawyers to work from anywhere.
LINK Files
- Easy access documents in iManage®, NetDocuments®, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and network file shares
- Search for documents by File Name, Author, Selected Text, Document ID, more
- Quickly compare documents, versions, & email redlines
- Check-out & check-in documents as new versions
- Edit documents with the Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for iPad/iPhone
- Annotate PDFs
- Save documents for encrypted offline use
Everything lawyers need to negotiate documents from smartphones & tablets
Key Features
- Navigate through the DMS folder hierarchy to locate a document
- View a document in DMS, including viewing tracked changes
- Full DMS Search by Doc ID, Author, Client/Matter, Body Text, Document Name, more
- Check-out a document, edit with the Microsoft Word app, then check doc into DMS as a new version
- Email a document from DMS with options to:
- Send copy with comparison redlines as well as clean copy
- Send PDF or Word
- Send DMS link or copy of document
- Sort folders and folder contents by several factors including Name, Owner, Type, Size, Last Accessed Date, more
- Filter folder contents by file name
- View a document with tracked changes accepted, that is, view a clean copy
- Compare docs in DMS to:
- Older version of same doc
- Another doc in the same folder
- Another doc elsewhere in DMS or in another repository
- Open older version of a document
- Copy a document to any folder in DMS as well as to other repositories, e.g., OneDrive for Business
- Delete a document (if IT configures this option)
- Lock a document
- Display properties of a document
- Save document for encrypted offline access within LINK
- If a user tries to check-out a doc which is already checked-out, a message will be displayed indicating who has the doc checked-out
- Create a note and check it into to DMS
- Annotate PDFs
LINK Email
- View NRL attachments and NetDocs links with tracked changes
- Push notifications and badge counter
- Email documents from DMS, network file shares, SharePoint libraries, & OneDrive for Business
- Check attachments into DMS
- Send and File an email to DM
- Compare an attachment to a version in DMS
- Work offline
- Contacts, Calendar, Notes, & Tasks included
Outlook with features for mobile lawyers, integrated with DMS
Key Features
- View an NRL or NetDocs link in LINK email, with tracked changes
- Compose an email and attach a doc from DMS, or from another repository, or from an existing email, to a new email and send:
- Internal recipients will automatically receive a DMS link
- External recipients will receive a copy of the doc, or even if there is one external recipient on the “to” or “cc” lines, all will receive a copy of the doc
- The sender can override and send either a DMS link or copy to all, as desired
- Send & file to DMS or to Outlook folders
- Push notifications and badge counter
- Work offline
- File existing emails to DMS or Outlook folders
- Check an attachment into DMS as a new doc ID or new version of existing Doc ID
- Compare a doc attached to email to a doc in DMS
- Mark an email to a recipient as “urgent”
- Use Outlook flags
- Sort emails by: Flagged, Flag Due Date, Importance, Unread, Received Date, Sender
- Filter emails by: Flagged, Has Attachments, Importance, Unread
- Outlook Contacts – view, add, delete, edit, call mobile or business numbers
- Outlook Calendar – view, edit, accept, create new appointments; view free/busy scheduler
- Outlook Notes – view, add, delete, edit
- Outlook Tasks – view, add, delete, edit
LINK Apps
- Deliver immediate benefits to users by leveraging existing IT infrastructure, people, applications and systems
- Build rich, secure mobile apps that allow users to complete complex multi-step workflows efficiently from personal smartphones and tablets
- Enable your web developers to build cross platform mobile apps with features like real-time push notifications, offline access, GPS and camera access
The Link App SDK offers enterprise web developers a comprehensive HTML5-based set of development tools that can be used in collaboration with LINK. Using the SDK, enterprise development teams are able to migrate existing enterprise Web applications quickly and efficiently for use on mobile devices. The SDK enables features such as push notifications and encrypted offline storage.
The LINK App SDK is standards-based, open-source, and free.
Key Features
- Support for multiple platforms for mobile and fixed use and access
- Functionally rich and secure mobile apps
- Tight integration with existing enterprise systems and data
- Rapid development, leveraging your web applications development team and existing code, tools and skills
- Iterative development, with a rapid pace of feature introduction and innovation
- Applications updates are automatically viewed in LINK – no App Store update needed
- Provides security end-to-end; encrypts data in-motion and at-rest