The Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry (SALI) Alliance has announced the release of a cross-industry common language for law firms and their in-house counsel clients.
The SALI Version 1 matter category standard includes the publication of area of law and process codes to provide common ground for the legal profession.
SALI also announced its intent to publish the second version of the code in June, which will further extend the taxonomy for location, jurisdiction, and other key business drivers of legal matters.
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SALI quoted Vince Cordo, the central legal operations officer at Shell International, as saying that “the SALI standard offers a unique coding for matters and simplifies how they can be managed, while improving our data analytics and reporting, digitizing procedures – moving the needle with measurable value. Legal departments are accelerating the innovation process and the SALI standard is an enabler to that end.”
SALI said in a statement that, unlike typical legal matter work type codes, the SALI matter category standard offers enhanced flexibility to slice and dice matter data, particularly when used to aggregate information from multiple organizations.
The SALI Alliance founding principle is industry inclusiveness for firms, clients, organizations and industry technology service providers.
The SALI Alliance is initially building a matter standard for describing legal matters to foster innovation and provide consistency for buyers and sellers of legal services.
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