DAVIES ARNOLD COOPER SELECTS RECOMMIND FOR FIRM-WIDE ENTERPRISE SEARCH

Leading UK Law Firm Unifies Knowledge Management Using MindServer Legal Platform

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO, 23rd May 2007 – Recommind, the leading provider of search and automated categorisation systems for law firms and enterprises, announced today that Davies Arnold Cooper, one of the UK’s leading law firms, has selected the Recommind MindServer™ Legal platform to deliver internal know how retrieval while also providing the firm with a powerful in-house litigation review tool. The MindServer Legal platform will enable Davies Arnold Cooper’s global network of lawyers to more effectively search, access, and manage information across the firm’s entire infrastructure.

“We were looking for a search solution that could provide our lawyers and support staff with a simple search interface, advanced search capabilities and the ability to retrieve highly relevant results from an array of key know how sources,” said Stuart Cowell, Head of IT at Davies Arnold Cooper.  “We selected Recommind’s MindServer Legal platform after a competitive trial of three search products. MindServer Legal was able to provide not only out of the box integration with our internal repositories (including Interwoven Worksite and Tikit KHS), but also proved capable of searching key external information sites, including PLC and a host of government and public information websites. Recommind’s MindServer Legal also impressed our lawyers with the relevancy of the search results, which were delivered at a speed considerably faster than the other products we looked at.”

Recommind’s MindServer Legal is a comprehensive software suite that integrates a law firm’s numerous applications and 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 technology, MindServer Legal dramatically improves access to a wide variety of information across large, distributed law firms and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and “actionability” of the information. 

Recommind’s MindServer Legal Enterprise Search module utilises 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 lawyers that need it. Davies Arnold Cooper initially began using MindServer Legal Enterprise Search to satisfy their Knowledge Management search requirements; the effectiveness of the platform, however, led the firm to extend the search deployment to a high profile litigation case. In this latter context MindServer Legal was used to index a collection of unstructured data (including emails, .pdfs, MS Word documents, text files and html pages) in order to provide the litigation partner and his team with a powerful, concept-based search facility for early case assessment of potentially relevant documents.

"We are delighted to welcome Davies Arnold Cooper to our growing client base of European law firms and legal departments,” said Bob Tennant, Recommind’s CEO. “Davies Arnold Cooper have not only embraced MindServer Legal to spearhead their knowledge management initiative but have also seen the potential of the solution to satisfy other search requirements throughout the practice including complex litigation review. We look forward to maintaining a long and fruitful partnership with the firm.”

About Davies Arnold Cooper
Davies Arnold Cooper is a commercial law firm specialising in dispute resolution and real estate. Established over 75 years ago, the firm has offices in the UK, Spain and Mexico. Davies Arnold Cooper is best known for its work in the real estate and insurance industries. The firm also tops the independent league tables for its work in product liability and is particularly highly rated in commercial litigation and construction. For more information visit www.dac.co.uk.

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, DuPont, Shearman & Sterling and the Australian Government.  Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, London, and Bonn, Germany.

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