Finding the most legally relevant documents in a case is critical to case preparation. Morris, Nichols, Arsht and Tunnell LLP, a major law firm specializing in business law and corporate litigation, recently integrated West km with the firm’s intranet portal and document management system to create a unified information search system, providing better, faster, more thorough search.
Wade Goldt, director of information technology for Morris Nichols explains:
“The key is providing people with information in the same manner in which they’re accustomed to seeing it. Integrating West km search with our document management system provides several advantages. It pulls West km information into their existing workflow through an interface with which our attorneys and staff are already accustomed and comfortable using. This makes it easier for users to find the most legally relevant documents.”
“It’s been a huge timesaver in finding information,” Goldt says. “For example, if an attorney is working on a case and wants to see if the firm has any documents from similar cases, they can set up filters by author, file type, document type, practice group, client or other attributes. This way, they can pre-filter their results, rather than starting with a broad search that may produce thousands of documents that aren’t relevant. By applying only the criteria needed, it filters the search down from four million documents to perhaps two dozen highly relevant documents in a matter of minutes.”
More information and demos of West km are available at the West booth at the 2010 ILTA conference, under way this week in Las Vegas.
Next week, we’ll provide a link to a detailed case study on how Morris Nichols integrated West km search with their document management system through Microsoft SharePoint.
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