ORRICK ENHANCES KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM WITH RECOMMIND

Leading Global Law Firm Deploys Recommind Enterprise Search and Expertise Location Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2008 – Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (www.orrick.com), a preeminent global law firm, has deployed Recommind’s MindServer™ Legal platform to enhance the firm’s knowledge management platform. The addition of Recommind’s MindServer Legal platform enables Orrick’s broad network of over 2,400 lawyers, paralegals, consultants and support staff to quickly locate relevant knowledge and expertise across their 18 offices worldwide.

“Orrick's knowledge management platform is built on three interconnected goals: high quality legal service to our clients, innovation, and collaboration. In order to meet our knowledge management opportunities today and in the future, we scrutinized several solutions. Recommind's platform was clearly best suited to help Orrick continue to advance these goals," said Peter Krakaur, Chief Knowledge Officer, Orrick. "Our new Enterprise Search, built on the MindServer platform, drastically reduces the time and effort our lawyers and legal staff spend searching and culling information, resulting in a significantly more productive billable hour for our clients. Additionally, using Recommind's unique Matters and Expertise locator, Orrick's lawyers and staff now have a system that permits them to leverage our broad knowledge base of experience across the globe. Orrick can now ensure immediate and efficient access to critical information and knowledge worldwide as the firm continues to grow and deliver the highest quality legal service to our clients.”

To date, Orrick has implemented the following components of MindServer Legal:

• Enterprise Search, which utilizes powerful concept-based search capabilities to connect attorneys and staff with relevant information located in the firm's document management system, contact database, and portal systems, plus myriad other applications and databases. For selected offices, the Search also fully integrates with external resources such as the Practical Law Company’s (PLC) database of legal know-how resources, to deliver seamless substantive content from internal and external sources.
• Matters & Expertise, which provides a comprehensive, firm-wide view of matters, deals, cases, and the vast array of experience across a firm by tapping into a variety of information sources such as CRM applications, portals, internal firm matter and case databases, and other information repositories.

“Orrick has a very long and rich history of high caliber customer service. Recommind is proud to provide the cutting-edge information and expertise discovery infrastructure that enables Orrick’s lawyers and legal staff to continue to deliver these quality result,” said Bob Tennant, Recommind CEO. “As Orrick’s business continues to expand, and with it their vast stores of expertise, knowledge, and electronically stored information, employees now have a quick and powerful means of sharing and applying that information. We welcome Orrick to Recommind’s growing list of AmLaw 100 customers.”

About Orrick
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a global law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers in North America, Europe and Asia. The firm focuses on litigation, complex and novel finance and innovative corporate transactions. The firm's 18 offices are located in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Moscow, New York, Orange County, Pacific Northwest, Paris, Rome, Sacramento, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Taipei, Tokyo 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.