Seyfarth Shaw Selects Recommind for Enterprise Search
SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 6, 2009 – Recommind, a leader in enterprise search, today announced that Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America’s leading full-service law firms, has selected Recommind’s MindServer Search™ application as the search layer powering the firm’s new Microsoft SharePoint portal. MindServer Search will enable Seyfarth Shaw’s 775 attorneys and their support staff to quickly find relevant documents, expertise, matters and relationships across the firm’s 10 offices. Seyfarth Shaw expects MindServer Search to further improve its efficiencies and strengthen client services.
Seyfarth Shaw’s enterprise search implementation will leverage MindServer Search to instantly connect attorneys and staff with relevant information in the firm’s Interwoven document management system, contact database, portal systems and myriad other applications and databases. Seyfarth Shaw will also implement Matters & Expertise™, a MindServer Search module that provides a comprehensive, firm-wide view of matters, deals, cases and experience. Matters & Expertise does this by synthesizing all relevant information across myriad sources such as time and billing systems, CRM applications, portals, internal matter and case databases and other information repositories.
“Recommind’s industry-leading software will enable Seyfarth Shaw’s ten offices to act as one, sharing resources, expertise and the accumulated knowledge of the firm as a whole,” said Phil Zawa, Director of Seyfarth Shaw’s Technology Services Practice Group. “MindServer Search will further enhance our Lean Six Sigma program, which drives out process inefficiencies in the delivery of legal services and reduces the time and cost to perform top-quality services for our clients. The significant operational efficiency gains we will achieve will be passed on directly to our clients.”
Dave Hambourger, Seyfarth’s Chief Information Officer, noted “we explored several other search solutions, but in our judgment, MindServer Search was the best platform for retrieving data instantly from a wide variety of sources, in a simple interface that works the way our users do and provides the accurate results we need instantly. Recommind’s deep expertise in the legal space as well as its technical acumen allowed us to quickly integrate the typical large firm legal applications and our diverse portfolio of custom-built, practice specific applications and databases. Vendor integrity and responsiveness were also major factors; as we grow and diversify, we need a vendor we can rely on to grow with us.”
“In the current economic climate, having quick, accurate and seamless access to enterprise data and expertise is absolutely paramount. With every company in every industry being forced to do more with less, it’s critical that organizations take the steps to ensure that every employee is working with the best information and resources available,” said Robert Tennant, CEO, Recommind. “We’re very pleased to add Seyfarth Shaw to the list of international organizations that have leveraged our solutions to become more information-centric, agile and efficient.”
About Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Seyfarth Shaw has over 775 attorneys located in nine offices throughout the United States including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Washington D.C., as well as Brussels, Belgium. Seyfarth Shaw provides a broad range of legal services in the areas of labor and employment, employee benefits, litigation and business services. The firm’s practice reflects virtually every industry and segment of the country’s business and social fabric. Clients include over 300 of the Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, newspapers and other media, hotels, health care organizations, airlines and railroads. The firm also represents a number of federal, state, and local governmental and educational entities. For more information, please visit www.seyfarth.com.
About Recommind Inc.
Recommind is the leader in predictive information management, delivering search-powered business applications that transform the way enterprises, government entities and law firms conduct eDiscovery, enterprise search and information governance. Recommind’s solutions are all built on the CORE (Context Optimized Relevancy Engine) platform, which automatically accesses, organizes and analyzes large volumes of information in context from myriad sources. With greater control over and more accurate access to information, organizations can lower risk, heighten productivity, increase the value of information assets and improve competitiveness and profitability. Recommind customers include AstraZeneca, BMW, Clifford Chance, DuPont, Marathon Oil, Morgan Lewis, Nationwide Insurance, US Department of Energy (DOE), White & Case and Wilmer Hale. Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., London and Bonn, Germany. For more information, e-mail info@recommind.com or go to www.recommind.com

