Universal Request for Legal Service Delivery
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Summary of Universal Request for Legal Service Delivery
Integrating the Universal Request application with Legal Service Delivery in ServiceNow provides a streamlined experience for employees requesting legal services. This enables effective interdepartmental collaboration, allowing requests to be managed efficiently from submission to resolution.
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Key Features
- Unified Request Process: Employees can submit a universal request via the Employee Center, which can include direct legal requests.
- Routing Mechanism: A routing agent identifies and creates a legal request from the universal request, making it the primary ticket.
- Legal Request Management: Legal fulfillers can resolve and close legal requests, transfer them, or create associated tickets for additional tasks.
- Visibility and Updates: Requesters can track the status and details of their requests through the Activities stream, including updates and personnel involved.
- Confidentiality Controls: Sensitive information is protected, with restricted visibility for certain details to authorized agents only.
Key Outcomes
The integration enhances employee experience by simplifying the process of requesting legal services. Employees can expect timely updates and transparent tracking of their requests. Furthermore, they have the option to reopen requests if they are not satisfied with the resolution. For successful integration, ensure the necessary ServiceNow plugins, including the Universal Request plugin and Legal Request Management app, are installed and configured according to your business needs.
Integrating Universal Request and Legal Service Delivery enables you to create a unified user experience for your employees to request services from the Legal department. Legal services can be provided to employees seamlessly without them having to deal with the difficulties of interdepartmental collaboration for resolution.
Journey of a universal request for a legal service
The ServiceNow® Universal Request application enables cross-departmental reporting from the time of an initial employee request through the final issue resolution. For more information, see Universal Request.
The Legal Request Management application provides a unified mechanism for employees to get all the information, services, and help that they need from the legal department.
You can fulfill requests across the organization to improve the employee experience by integrating legal requests with universal requests.
- An employee submits a universal request using the Request help option in the Employee Center portal. The employee can also submit a direct legal request attached to a universal request.
- A routing agent identifies this request related to the Legal department and creates a legal request from the universal request. The legal request becomes the primary ticket of the universal request.
- Based on the services requested, a legal fulfiller can do the following while working on
the legal request:
- Provides a resolution and closes the legal request. The universal request also gets closed.
- Transfers the request to another department or back to the universal request routing group with or without resolution.
- Creates associated tickets for the tasks to be done by users in the Legal or any other department required to fulfill the request.
- Marks the legal request as Restricted if it contains any sensitive or confidential information. Routing agents from the current assignment group with the sn_uni_req.sensitiveinfo_agent role, and the primary ticket agent can view the complete details of the ticket. Other routing agents cannot see fields in the universal request that may contain sensitive information, such as Short description and Description.
The universal request gives requesters complete visibility into the status of their requests. They can view all the relevant details from the Activities stream of the universal request, including users who are working on the issue, transfers between departments, and other updates.
When the universal request is closed, the requester can reopen it if not satisfied with the resolution.
For more information about submitting and tracking a universal request, see Using Universal Request.
For more information on submitting and managing ethics complaints, see Better together solution: Legal Investigations and HR Service Delivery Employee Relations.
Required ServiceNow plugins and apps
- Universal Request plugin (com.snc.universal_request)
- Legal Request Management app 6.1 or later version
- Employee Center app
Also, you've to configure various settings in Universal Request. For more information, see Configure Universal Request for legal services.