Leading International Law Firm Implements MindServer Search to Improve Information Access and Increase Organizational Agility
SAN FRANCISCO, August 24, 2009 – Recommind, the leader in search-powered Information Risk Management (IRM) software, today announced that Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, one of the world’s premier law firms, has launched Recommind’s MindServer™ Search software and Recommind’s Matters & Expertise module. Together, the two Recommind products enable Davis Polk’s 750 attorneys and their support staff to find relevant documents, matters and expertise anywhere in the firm’s nine international and domestic offices.
Using patented search technology, MindServer Search dramatically improves access to information across large, distributed organizations and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and ‘actionability’ of the information. MindServer Search’s Matters and Expertise module gives Davis Polk employees quick access to its work and its people through the automated integration of information from diverse repositories including time and billing, matter profiles and human resources.
“Search.DavisPolk, powered by MindServer Search, was instantly and broadly welcomed by both lawyers and staff,” said Michael Mills, the firm’s Director of Professional Services. “Its great power comes from the easily tailored joining of multiple data sources and cross-indexing of metadata from one source to another, so that results are presented in meaningful context. We were industry pioneers when our internally developed worldwide full-text document search launched in 1992, and have now partnered with Recommind to leap ahead to the third generation – search as an engine for answers, not just results, not just about documents but about every aspect of the firm’s business.”
“Lawyers need to locate and analyze tremendous amounts of data every day, and they know better than anyone that the rapid influx of information is making first- and second-generation enterprise search products obsolete,” said Robert Tennant, CEO, Recommind. “Forward-thinking firms like Davis Polk are turning to MindServer Search, the first and only third-generation enterprise search system, to improve their information access, streamline their workflow and enable attorneys to focus on client work rather than sifting search results.”
MindServer Search is built on Recommind’s CORE™ platform, a comprehensive software suite that integrates an enterprise’s numerous applications and information repositories, enabling fast, easy access to relevant information irrespective of keywords. The CORE platform substantially reduces the time and costs involved in conducting legal research, while improving the quality of work delivered to the end client.
About Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is a global law firm. For 160 years, its lawyers have advised industry-leading companies and global financial institutions on their most challenging legal and business matters. Davis Polk ranks among the world`s preeminent law firms across the entire range of its practice, which spans such areas as capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, credit, litigation, private equity, tax, investment management, insolvency and restructuring, executive compensation, intellectual property, real estate and trusts and estates. The firm has approximately 750 lawyers in offices in New York, Menlo Park, CA, Washington DC, London, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. For more information: http://www.davispolk.com.