The Enterprise Portal System is a complete solution of enterprise integration, search, and user interface components designed to increase efficiency, timeliness, and quality throughout your firm.

The Enterprise Portal System extends SharePoint 2003 and 2007 platforms to fit the way your law firm works and the way you use information to drive client service and better manage your practices. You can combine separate systems into a consistent user interface within SharePoint and present information in legal-specific contexts, such as clients, matters, or practice areas.

Here are my notes on the second part of the following session on wikis in knowledge management. It covers a Sharepoint example.

This firm already had Sharepoint which offers a wiki so they made use of this option. The wiki use cases include: meeting management, project management, knowledge discovery and sharing, as well as knowledge management. The Sharepoint wiki provides ease of use. The categories work well and provide good ability to create them for wiki pages. The categories work like tagging. They also use RSS on all the wikis for updates.

There are currently a couple of problems with the wiki.

Lee Rosen, the president of Rosen Law Firm, took a few minutes to talk with me about his firm's experience with wikis.Rosen is replacing his Lotus Notes platform with an externally hosted wiki from PBWiki. You may have read about the cash prize contest he ran for his employees in a story on CNN.com: Boosting Teamwork with Wikis.

Lee was drawn to the concept of using a wiki because of its purported simplicity. He found it much easier to develop and add content.

The firm started with the free version of PBWiki and had their wiki up and running in minutes. Some of his administrators worked with the wiki for a few months to see its functionality and how it might work within the firm. Then others in the firm started asking to join and it took off.

Open Text legal solutions provide law firms with an integrated product offering developed specifically to support law firms’ business practices and proactive compliance needs throughout the matter lifecycle – from client intake through to final disposition: Conflicts Management New Business Intake Records Management Reporting/Auditing Document Management Legal Information Management Email Lifecycle Management

Handshake Software delivers rich integration with the major line of business systems used in the Professional Services and Legal Industries providing a quick start to creating dynamic Portals using Microsoft SharePoint Server. Only Handshake Software provides Matter-Centric, Client-Centric, Practice-Centric, Professional-Centric views, as well as others, of all the firm’s information including Elite, ADERANT, Juris, Interwoven, Open Text, West KM, InterAction, Javelan, Keystone, LawBase and many others. Firms can easily modify the provided Handshake Software Web Part Skins without requiring a .Net programmer.