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Am Law 20 Firm Revolutionizes Information Access With Recommind’s MindServer Search
29 July 2010
Firm Uses Industry’s Leading Enterprise Search Platform to Provide Employees with Instant, Accurate Access to Information
Recommind, the leader in search-powered information management solutions for enterprises and law firms, today announced that a leading global law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers in 12 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia has selected MindServer™ Search to power its knowledge management needs.
The firm, which recently placed in the top 20 of the annual American Lawyer 100 rankings, will significantly enhance its knowledge management capabilities with MindServer Search by ensuring that employees have instant, accurate access to the most relevant resources available.
MindServer Search combines sophisticated, concept-based search technology with a simple user interface to provide highly accurate results that are tailored to the information requirements of the organization and its users. With the solution implemented across its network, the firm will be able to instantly crawl, index and access information from Microsoft® SharePoint® as well as its document management libraries, office file shares, Exchange folders, email archives, time & billing systems, docketing and additional sources. The firm will deploy MindServer Search as the primary search technology across all systems, making the data exponentially more usable and actionable across the organization.
"A common vision for control and governance of email and documents that will satisfy legal requirements and address cost and feasibility concerns from the IT department is slowly emerging. The publication of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) has helped a great deal by codifying the common components that the legal department needs and that IT must provide." 
"The persistence of temporary backup files for four days presents obvious security and privacy issues. If such files contain sensitive, confidential, or otherwise privileged information, their existence can expose a law firm to malpractice risk, court sanctions, or other serious problems / penalties
"The UK Legal market is certainly not a leader in Social Networking but one or two firms are using some of the tools such as Linkedin, Blogs, Twitter and a couple are experimenting with Facebook as a consumer facing marketing tool. " 
