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To streamline email and enhance project management, improving overall efficiency
Dentons is piloting ThreadKM, a new knowledge management platform, across the Firm’s six Canadian offices, to streamline team communications and collaboration on matters and projects.
ThreadKM enables Dentons’ legal teams to quickly share ideas, files and links without the clutter of endless emails—the platform combines “team chat” technology found in Slack, Hipchat and other business applications with an agile task board and iManage integration. Dentons believes ThreadKM can help solve the legal profession’s email overload problem.
“We were excited to roll out ThreadKM to Firm members in Canada,” said Ginevra Saylor, National Director of Knowledge Management with Dentons Canada LLP. “Lawyers send and receive massive amounts of email and are looking for better ways to manage communication, documents and tasks. ThreadKM fits into legal professionals’ natural workflow, while delivering the security and information governance requirements expected of law firms and departments. So, we see great potential with this collaboration platform."
For ThreadKM, team chat technology continues to attract new interest and customers. “Law firms are starting to hear about team chat from everywhere: in the news, from their clients, even from their own lawyers,” said Dan Hauck, CEO at ThreadKM. “Now they want to bring the technology into their own organizations because they recognize how it can be used to help with email exhaustion. ThreadKM offers a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive solution for law firms.”
Beyond team chat, ThreadKM will provide additional benefits for Dentons. Using deep integration with iManage, lawyers can find, view and add documents to matters stored in iManage. Additionally, ThreadKM features a “kanban” board for each matter that allows legal teams to view and visually organize tasks. This agile approach aligns with how many lawyers work, without requiring complex project management software for every matter.
Moving forward, Dentons will also explore how ThreadKM’s open API can be used to message lawyers with information found in systems beyond document management. “We’ll work closely with Dentons to build integrations that make sense and maximize the value of their existing tools,” said Dedrick Duckett, ThreadKM’s CTO. “Our platform is designed from the ground up to be open for firms that desire additional customization.”
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