Ascent ELM allows any authorized users to easily manage their workload for Legal Holds, budgeting, reports, vendor approvals, as well as create AFAs (alternative fee arrangements). Ascent ELM's Legal Hold module effectively manages all aspects of your Legal Holds to include communications, scheduling, notifications, and custodian compliance. Ascent ELM's AFA-Wizard module provides near real-time tracking and watches the "shadow spend" against the expected business. Expanded capabilities grow with you. The Report-Builder module allows teams to easily ask complex questions and get immediate answers without requesting customs reports from support reps.