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Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a top international law firm, has chosen Recommind's MindServer(TM) Legal platform to power its internal information retrieval system. The MindServer Legal platform enables Shook, Hardy & Bacon's partners, associates, analysts, and paralegals in nine offices around the world to more effectively search, access and manage information to support client objectives in a cost-effective manner.

"We selected Recommind's MindServer Legal platform because our lawyers, analysts, and legal staff found it intuitive to use, identifying not only relevant documents and files, but also the on-point expertise of individual lawyers and analysts in the firm," said John Anderson, CIO at Shook, Hardy & Bacon. "In comparison with other platforms, Recommind's platform was more effective and will take employees less time in the searching process, leaving more time for clients."

Shook, Hardy & Bacon has chosen to deploy the following MindServer Legal components: -- Enterprise Search, which utilizes powerful, concept-based search capabilities to connect relevant information in document management, records management, portal and e-mail systems and myriad other applications and databases with the attorneys that need it. -- Matters & Expertise which provides a comprehensive, firm-wide view of matters, deals, cases, and the vast array of expertise contained within a firm by tapping into a variety of information sources such as time and billing systems, CRM applications, intranets, internal firm databases and other information repositories.

Open Text has partnered with Recommind, a provider of enterprise search and eDiscovery solutions, to offer a new product called Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment

The solution promises to minimize the need for third-party processing and help control the high costs of legal reviews by culling irrelevant information before it goes for review by outside counsel.

The goal here is to let organizations quickly assess the legal merits of a case and defensibly manage legal holds and collection for eDiscovery, regulatory and compliance requests.

Recommind has continued its success in the legal sector in 2008 with deployments announced with law firms including Simmons & Simmons, Reed Smith, Addleshaw Goddard and Eversheds. Recommind’s MindServer™ Enterprise Search platform enables law firms to search all databases and core knowhow across multiple locations, allowing lawyers to easily access and share the information they need.

Recommind, a provider of enterprise search, email management and eDisclosure systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that it has been shortlisted in the ‘Best of Breed System of the Year’ and ‘Most Customer-Focused Supplier of the Year’ categories for the Legal Technology Awards 2009.

The next session at the Ark KM Conference saw Mark Young, Managing Partner, and John S. Gillies, Director of Practice Support, at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP address development of a KM strategy.

He indicated that he often hears partners claim they could get more work in the door if they had more time; KM offered them more time, and hence more opportunity for more business.

He also feels that KM provides an opportunity to demonstrate greater value to clients.

MindServer™ Categorization automatically maps structured and unstructured information into an information structure - taxonomy, ontology, or subject heading classification.

Increasingly, the trend is towards smarter enterprise search (Recommind, Autonomy, and Interwoven Universal Search, and SharePoint 2007 search, to name a few of the smarter search engines some law firms are using).

First there is an effort to better structure information as it is captured. Second, there are efforts to create structure out of chaotic information (a.k.a. BLOBs), which is where next-generation search tools come into play.

For now I will break search into three categories: Keyword, Concept and Semantic.

Keyword or word searching, for this discussion, is that of searching for exact word matches.

Decisiv Email employs advanced categorization and conceptual search technology to automatically tag, organize, and file email messages and associated attachments with virtually no user involvement.

Additionally, you can use Decisiv Email as an email archiving tool. Recommind claims that using Decisiv Email to store business records delivers up to 500% in storage savings over traditional email archiving systems while substantially reducing litigation risk and eDiscovery costs.

Decisiv Email sells for $300 per user for perpetual licenses.

Innerhalb von nur 3 Monaten wurde MindServer Legal bei Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP als kanzleiweites Knowledge Management- und Retrieval-System eingeführt. Die Lösung greift unter dem internen Namen "KnowledgeSearch" auf sämtliche Datenbestände der Kanzlei zu und verbindet so die allgemeine Dokumentenverwaltung, eine KM-Bibliothek, ein Managementsystem, das gesamte Intranet sowie externe Quellen wie z.B. Rechtsdatenbanken.

"Im Legal-Bereich verfügen wir über eine einzigartige Expertise und die Auszeichnung belegt, das wir wissen, was unsere Kunden wollen und dies auch konsequent umsetzen."

Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP hat darüberhinaus noch den Preis als "Best Knowledge Management und Information Team of the Year" - auch für den Einsatz von MindServer Legal.