SALI Alliance™ Standards Advancement for the Legal IndustryModern Legal Industry Standards |
SALI is a not-for-profit organization comprised of legal industry professionals from legal operations, law firms and solution providers with the goal of developing open, practical industry standards for efficient and innovative legal services.Standards to produce better outcomesThe legal industry is moving towards standardizing terminology to simplify and improve the delivery of legal services by providing greater transparency and increasing the effectiveness of budgeting and resourcing. Providing a common language for the industry serves as the catalyst for better outcomes and value. Legal Matter Standard Specification (LMSS)What's new: Read about the newest version of the standard: LMSS 2.0 Explore the StandardThe best way to browse the SALI LMSS 2.0 standard is through the Stanford WebProtégé tool:
Excel version: NEWS SALI Publishes Overview of SALI LMSS on Influential 3 Geeks BlogRead MoreSALI Alliance Releases Second Major Version of the Legal Matter Specification StandardRead MoreNetDocuments Joins SALI Alliance, Advocates Legal Classification StandardsSALI Legal Matter Specification Standard framework part of NetDocuments PLAN and ORGANIZATION Solutions - Read More SALI Litigation Extension and Innovative LMSS ViewerSALI Efforts Accelerate During Pandemic to Provide More Depth for Litigation AttributesWhile Facilitating Code Viewing with a New LMSS Viewer - Read More SALI Presentation at NetDocuments Elevate 2020Industry Leaders Chat about SALI (Toby Brown, Kelly Harbour, Jim Hannigan) - Watch ILTACON 2020 Presentation by Patrick Dundas, Meg Evans, Kelly HarbourWhat started as an idea at ILTACON a few years ago, has now graduated to a formal non-profit dedicated to achieving practical standards for coding matters, time entries, and documents: The SALI Alliance. Hear directly from the founders of the SALI movement as to how it started, where it is today, and practical steps and guidance to implement the SALI standards at your firm. - View the Session (requires access) SALI: Building Common Standards for Legal ServicesMatter standard version 1 release provides a foundation for driving efficiency and enabling change for the legal industry - Read More SALI Alliance Announces LMSS 1.0 of Legal Matter StandardMatter standard version 1 release provides a foundation for driving efficiency and enabling change for the legal industry - Read More SALI Alliance Announces Addition of International Legal Technology Association as Founding MemberThe Addition of Key Founding Member Represents a Milestone in Standards Industry Adoption and Endorsement - Read More Microsoft Signs on as First User of ‘Standard’ Legal LanguageThe Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry Alliance announced Microsoft had begun a trial implementation of the new language - Read More |
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Rationale for legal industry standardsIndustry standards have been around a very long time. Their purpose is to enable a more effective and efficient market for a product or service. Standards come about when industry participants recognize that a there is no real competitive advantage to having custom and unique specifications. Industries standardize when they realize that the lack of a standard hinders the market, and limits innovation and creativity. Standards have value for all participants in the market, from raw material companies, to manufacturers, to supply chains, and especially the ultimate consumers. The costs of consumer products would be dramatically higher absent multitudes of standards. A legal matter standard will help in the sourcing of legal services. SALI Alliance StandardsSALI Alliance Standards are:
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About the Legal Matter Specification Standard (LMSS)The LMSS is a modern, common language that defines legal matters — a set of services for a specific legal need. LMSS specifies legal work in way that is:
| About the SALI AllianceThe Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry (SALI) Alliance is an independent not-for-profit, member organization that was formally established on May 15, 2017 with the goal of producing standards for the legal industry to accelerate innovation, and improve efficiency. The SALI Alliance includes a wide range of stakeholders including law firms, companies, service providers and legal industry associations. |