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Field Fisher Waterhouse Selects Recommind's Mindserver Legal as Enterprise Search Platform
Leading European Business Law Firm Unifies Its Firm-wide Knowledge Management Using Recommind's Innovative Technology
LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO, 28 June 2007 –
Recommind, the leading provider of search and automated categorisation systems for the world’s leading law firms and enterprises, announced today that Field Fisher Waterhouse, one of Europe’s most ambitious law firms, are the latest firm to select the Recommind MindServer™ Legal platform. The MindServer Legal application will provide Field Fisher Waterhouse’s lawyers with a powerful enterprise search solution that will more effectively search, access, and manage information across the practice including internal and external know-how, relevant matters and lawyer expertise.
“Our lawyers and support staff needed improved access to relevant information that was scattered across a variety of sources distributed throughout the firm as well as on the internet”, said Jane Bradbury, Director of Knowledge Management at Field Fisher Waterhouse. “We are confident that Recommind will provide our people not just with better information, but will also enable them to find answers swiftly and so make them more efficient in the delivery of service to clients. MindServer Legal is not only able to provide us with powerful search across our internal document repositories but also gives us the combined ability to search external websites and information repositories via integrated federated search functionality. Furthermore MindServer Legal impressed us with its capability to search our finance, HR and CRM systems and enable users to locate relevant matters and expertise within the practice, providing us with a complete knowledge search platform to empower our busy lawyers.”
Recommind’s MindServer Legal platform 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, the MindServer Legal solution 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.
"We are excited to welcome Field Fisher Waterhouse to our growing list of European clients,” said Bob Tennant, Recommind’s CEO. “With its leading technology practice, Field Fisher Waterhouse recognizes the need to continually improve access to electronic knowledge resources and is well poised to help its staff manage the explosion of information that is available today and into the future.”
About Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP is a full-service European business law firm with offices in London, Brussels and Hamburg. With 102 partners, over 200 other lawyers and nearly 300 support staff, the firm assists a wide range of international clients, advising across a full range of legal issues..
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, DuPont, Lewis Silkin, 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.
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