Opus 2 Investigations

Overview

Transform your investigations practice with Opus 2 Investigations to provide a more flexible and connected way of working for your team and clients. Our secure cloud-based solution enables you to automate manual time-consuming tasks, while providing intuitive collaboration features that allow the investigation work to be conducted effectively and deal with issues and risks appropriately.

Eliminate the pains associated with the use of multiple disjointed tools and work towards providing clients with the best possible outcomes, seamlessly with Opus 2 Investigations.

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Locate content across all materials, including documents, notes, witnesses and events, swiftly and easily with the use of advanced search and powerful filtering functionality.

Targeted searches through the whole content allow the user to instantly locate important information and to view connected data together and makes navigating through data even easier.

Events

Create a comprehensive timeline of the incidents relevant to an investigation, including links to all the underlying evidence and witnesses involved, with Events. Instant visualisations can be formed, including all the key events and the witnesses involved, all displayed in a chronological timeline for granular point-by-point analysis and witness interview preparation.

Witnesses

Witnesses provides a central repository of the witnesses relevant to an investigation with quick access to key details and facts. This centralised repository can be accessed by the entire case team, reducing knowledge gaps and enabling teams to work more efficiently. Specific witnesses can be linked to relevant documents and events and notes made can be previewed, together with all the underlying evidence.

Interview questions

Interview questions provides an interactive environment for the preparation and collation of interview questions relevant to the investigation witnesses. Questions are connected to events, notes, documents and other materials. Create, review and finalise questions and collaborate seamlessly with the investigation team. Avoid duplication of work, by having all the key details in one place to revisit throughout the investigation at various stages. Using powerful filtering and tagging tools quickly locate the required material for the task at hand without wasting valuable time.

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Tailored portals

Create numbered witness bundles with our Collections and share them with witnesses for interviews in seconds via customisable portals. Facilitate in-person and remote witness interviews with user-friendly portals accessed safely by witnesses anywhere in the world.

Other features

Collections (including bundle creation)

Autolink documents

In-document annotation and collaboration

Project analysis dashboards

Client and witness portals

Centralised hosting

Management of documents

Paperless platform

Highly secure cloud-based solution

Highly secure ISO-accreditation

“This innovative technology is a game-changer for investigations work, revolutionising traditional legal processes towards a far more seamless way of working. We’re looking forward to maximising its potential and the benefits it offers for our clients – from considerable time-savings to closer collaboration at every step during an investigation."

Ben Packer, Dispute Resolution Partner, Linklaters

“The smart, automated processes the solution offers will also give our junior lawyers the capacity to gain greater exposure to the higher-level, strategic aspects of their matters. Ultimately, the tech will make the delivery of tasks and decision-making easier for both our clients and our lawyers.”

Nik Kiri, Financial Regulation Partner, Linklaters

Key benefits

Modernise investigations

Conduct investigations in a structured and effective manner optimising time spent and staying within set budgets. Our solution is tailored to your best practices, equipping your teams with the tools to be more agile and efficient, whilst still delivering the best quality service to your clients.

Enhance collaboration and secure document sharing

Annotate and share documents with the entire team or specific users, such as witnesses, and build up a trail of up-to-date real time discussion for everyone to see and act upon. Your team can conduct investigations effectively taking appropriate and timely steps.

Eliminate duplication of work

Tasks such as creating and updating chronologies of events, witnesses and their relevant details and interview questions can be interlinked and connected, enabling work product from the very beginning until the end of an investigation to add value to the process and assist with the preparation and development of the investigation report.

Automate manual time-consuming tasks

Tasks such as preparing, updating, numbering and re-numbering interview bundles are automated. In our solution, interview bundles are created almost automatically (automatic numbering and re-numbering capabilities are present) and are generated instantly for access by witnesses on a specific bespoke witness portal, removing the need for multiple forms of communications across different systems.

Flexible and connected working

Support your client throughout each stage of the investigation and collaborate seamlessly on one secure platform. With powerful tools at your disposal, gone are the days of disjointed tools across multiple pieces of software, our fully browser-based solution is accessible anywhere in the world and is intuitive to use.

Secure, proven technology

Your security and privacy are essential to Opus 2. Our proven, secure, cloud-based technology can be used by legal teams with confidence and peace of mind. We are an ISO:27001 certified organisation, committed to the security and privacy of our customers and their data.