Sophisticated search solution enables international law firm to offer better client service by providing complete name check of all relevant sources in seconds

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO,  MAY 26, 2010 – Recommind, the leader in search-powered Information Risk Management (IRM) software for enterprises and law firms, today announced that Davies Arnold Cooper LLP, one of the UK’s leading full-service law firms, is using Recommind’s MindServer™ Search platform to enable the firm’s lawyers and risk managers to perform a full text firm-wide search of all key business applications – including the document, practice and case management systems, as well as their in-house file inception and conflicts tracking databases and processes – to ensure that no conflicts of interest exist.  This latest utilisation of the MindServer Search platform in a live, production environment represents another ‘first’ for the UK legal industry as real-time conflicts check functionality has been added to the industry’s leading enterprise search platform for documents, matters and expertise.

 Exposure to potential conflicts of interest is a major risk for all modern law firms which can result in breach of ethical obligations.  To mitigate such risks, Recommind has developed a robust and comprehensive conflicts workflow solution powered by MindServer Search technology.  This powerful solution gives firms like Davies Arnold Cooper confidence that all relevant sources have been checked as part of the client instruction process.  Put simply, Davies Arnold Cooper lawyers can now instantly verify with confidence whether a potential conflict exists from the outset of an engagement.

“Davies Arnold Cooper, in response to new Solicitor rules regarding conflicts, redesigned its conflict checking procedures around MindServer Search.  All relevant information can be checked instantly, thus allowing partners to proceed with confidence,” said David Hamilton, IT director at Davies Arnold Cooper.  “The key requirement of any conflicts system is to be able to quickly and reliably search a range of data sources and given the capabilities of Mindserver Search, which is used widely throughout the practice on a daily basis, it made sense to use it for our conflicts of interest checking solution.”  

 “What’s so exciting about this project is that Davies Arnold Cooper is leading the way within the UK legal industry by leveraging its existing MindServer Search platform to provide lawyers with a first class conflict searching experience that truly sifts through all the firm’s important information repositories,” said Simon Price, European director at Recommind.  “No longer do the firm’s lawyers have to rely on individuals responding to emails when checking conflicts of interest, nor do they have to interrupt their day-to-day work to find the answers they need.  They can now access the full breadth of the firm’s information assets right from their own desktops.”

 MindServer Search is built on Recommind’s CORE™ (Context Optimised Relevancy Engine) platform, a fully automated information management layer which seamlessly and securely integrates structured and unstructured data inside and outside of enterprise networks, making information, expertise and relationships instantly available, in context, to users who need them.  MindServer Search’s federated search capabilities enable users to search across internal and external data sources with one query.  The extended federated search framework in MindServer Search increases user productivity by integrating internal and external results and highlighting search terms in external sources.

About Davies Arnold Cooper
Davies Arnold Cooper is a commercial law firm specialising in dispute resolution and real estate. Established over 75 years ago, the firm has offices in the UK, Spain and Mexico. Davies Arnold Cooper is best known for its work in the real estate and insurance industries. The firm also tops the independent league tables for its work in product liability and is particularly highly rated in commercial litigation and construction.  For more information visit www.dac.co.uk.

About MindServer Search
Recommind’s MindServer Search substantially reduces the time and costs involved in conducting research, while improving the quality of work produced by the end user. Using Recommind’s patented CORE™ platform, MindServer Search dramatically improves access to a wide variety of information across large, distributed enterprises and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and “actionability” of the information. MindServer Search utilizes powerful concept-based search technology to automatically synthesize relevant information in document management, records management, portal and e-mail systems and myriad other applications and databases with the users that need it.