When Aderant acquired American LegalNet earlier this 12 months, you knew they have been as much as one thing. Within the ten months since, Aderant labored to develop a cloud-based docketing system that takes Aderant’s current CompuLaw system and melds it with ALN’s docketing know-how. The result’s Milana — derived from Hindi for “combine” or “carry collectively” — which Aderant sees as the way forward for docketing.

“Milana represents the way forward for docketing, and the long run is right here,” remarked Chris Cartrett, President and CEO of Aderant. “Regulation companies should guard towards reputational and malpractice threat and docketing generally is a main supply of each. To raised tackle the wants of our purchasers and the trade, we’re bringing collectively CompuLaw’s market-leading court docket guidelines and the cloud advantages companies have come to anticipate with ALN into a brand new product that far exceeds something obtainable for companies in the present day. Milana is the brand new customary in docketing, constructed on the foundations the trade trusts with an outlined path of innovation forward.”

Combining the 2 merchandise gives Milana customers with rule units for greater than 2,000 jurisdictions throughout all 50 states, together with court docket holidays constructed into the software program.

Another highlights of the brand new product embrace:

• Trusted, market-leading CompuLaw court docket guidelines with matter-level exclusions
• Auto Docket Professional (ECF Reconciliation & Distribution)
• Superior DMS integration (iManage & NetDocuments) and Varieties Workflow Integration
• Docket Direct (Court docket Information Feeds)
• Number of settings, wizards, workflows and self-service instruments to reinforce consumer expertise

And, as you may anticipate from a know-how launch in 2022… it’s heavy on the analytics. From LawSites:

“We rolled out a report that basically permits you to get granular with the information,” [Director of Account Management David] Flynn stated. “So let’s say I’m attempting to determine what number of instances we have now we had in a sure jurisdiction in entrance of a sure decide, who have been the attorneys concerned, and the outcomes. In simply a few clicks, I can run this report filter after which have that info and even ship that info to another undertaking that we’re engaged on.”

Aderant will probably be demonstrating Milana on the Nationwide Docketing Affiliation Annual Convention on October 16-18 at Caesars Palace.

I didn’t know there was a Nationwide Docketing Affiliation. Man, I’ll wager that convention is organized as all get out.

Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Regulation and co-host of Pondering Like A Lawyer. Be happy to e-mail any ideas, questions, or feedback. Observe him on Twitter in case you’re enthusiastic about regulation, politics, and a wholesome dose of school sports activities information. Joe additionally serves as a Managing Director at RPN Govt Search.