Shook, Hardy & Bacon Selects Recommind For Firmwide Information Management

Top International Law Firm Selects Recommind for Search and Expertise Location Using MindServer™ Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, January 22 , 2008– Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a top international law firm, has chosen Recommind’s MindServer™ Legal platform to power its internal information retrieval system. The MindServer Legal platform enables Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s partners, associates, analysts, and paralegals in nine offices around the world to more effectively search, access and manage information to support client objectives in a cost-effective manner.

“We selected Recommind’s MindServer Legal platform because our lawyers, analysts, and legal staff found it intuitive to use, identifying not only relevant documents and files, but also the on-point expertise of individual lawyers and analysts in the firm,” said John Anderson, CIO at Shook, Hardy & Bacon.    “In comparison with other platforms, Recommind's platform was more effective and will take employees less time in the searching process, leaving more time for clients.”

Recommind’s MindServer Legal is a comprehensive software suite that integrates a legal department or 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 conceptual search and categorization technology, MindServer Legal improves access to a wide variety of information and expertise across large, distributed legal departments and external sources and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and actionability of the information. Shook, Hardy & Bacon has chosen to deploy 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.      

"As the legal industry continues to diversify, it is vital that all workers have an effective means of sharing and using information, including taking full advantage of the individual expertise of workers dispersed around the globe” said Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind.  “Shook, Hardy and Bacon has empowered its people to leverage the value of the data it holds through the intelligent automation of information management. With a broad network of practice groups spanning the globe, Shook, Hardy & Bacon is a very well-respected firm that Recommind is excited to have as a customer,”

About Shook, Hardy, & Bacon
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. is an international law firm with a legal legacy spanning more than a century. Established in Kansas City in 1889, today the firm has grown to more than 1,507 employees worldwide, with 502 attorneys and 262 research analysts and paraprofessionals. Many of the research analysts hold advanced degrees, in biochemistry, neuroscience, engineering, genetics and physiology. The firm has nine offices strategically located in Geneva; Houston; Kansas City, Missouri; London; Miami; Orange County, California; San Francisco; Tampa, Florida; and Washington, D.C. .

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.