Bingham Selects Recommind To Bolster Firmwide Information Management System

Leading National Law Firm Will Deploy Enterprise Search and Expertise Location Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO, February 19, 2008 – Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that Bingham McCutchen LLP (www.bingham.com), a leading national law firm with global capabilities, has chosen Recommind’s MindServer™ Legal platform to power the firm’s information management system. Bingham’s vast network of approximately 2,500 lawyers, paralegals and support staff spanning 13 offices worldwide will be able to more effectively search, manage and retrieve information to serve clients in a cost-effective manner with the MindServer Legal platform. 

“Bingham has grown from approximately 200 lawyers in 1995 to nearly 1,000 today and from four offices to more than a dozen offices in leading financial centers throughout the world,” said Bingham CIO David Furey.  “As we continue to grow in both size and skill, Bingham needs to ensure immediate and efficient access to critical information worldwide – regardless of its location.  We evaluated several solutions and selected Recommind’s platform because its intuitive interface will significantly reduce the time and effort our lawyers and legal staff spend culling for information.  Recommind’s unique Matters & Expertise locator was a particular draw because of the size of our firm.  Our lawyers have a great breadth and depth of knowledge and now our lawyers and staff will have a system that can automatically access that knowledge base with minimal effort.” 

Recommind’s MindServer Legal is a comprehensive software suite that integrates a legal department or law firm’s critical information repositories, enabling fast, easy access to relevant information. The platform substantially reduces the time and costs involved in conducting legal research, while improving the quality of work delivered to the end client.  Using patented search and categorization technology, MindServer Legal improves access to a wide variety of information and expertise across large, distributed legal departments and external firms and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and actionability of the information. Bingham will implement 2,500 seats of 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.      

“Bingham is a very well-respected firm with tremendous momentum, and Recommind is pleased to add the firm to our growing list of AmLaw 100 customers,” said Bob Tennant, Recommind CEO.  “As their business continues to expand, it is imperative that employees have a powerful means of sharing and applying information.  Bingham will achieve significant time and cost savings with improved access to their vast knowledge base.  We are proud to be a part of the cutting-edge information infrastructure that empowers their legal staff.”

About Bingham McCutchen LLP
Bingham McCutchen LLP - www.bingham.com - is a national law firm with global capabilities, with nearly 1,000 attorneys in 13 offices. The firm represents clients in cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, high-stakes litigation, complex financing and regulatory matters, government affairs, and a wide variety of sophisticated corporate and technology transactions. .

About Recommind
Recommind’s enterprise search and categorization platform automatically organizes, manages, and distributes large volumes of information from multiple sources. With faster access to the right information, organizations can save time, enhance the quality of work product, increase the value of information assets, and improve competitiveness and profits. Recommind customers include Bertelsmann, BMW, Cleary Gottlieb, Davies Arnold Cooper, Novartis, Lewis Silkin, Shearman & Sterling and the Australian Government.  Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, London, and Bonn, Germany.

For more information, email info@recommind.com, or go to www.recommind.com.