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Littler Mendelson Chooses Recommind to Power SharePoint Portal Search

San Francisco - December 17, 2008

Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, email management and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that Littler Mendelson has selected Recommind’s MindServer™ platform to power its SharePoint portal search. Designed to help law firms quickly and accurately identify, retrieve and share information from internal and external sources across disparate offices, MindServer Enterprise Search and Matters & Expertise is being integrated with SharePoint portal and deployed as part of company-wide initiative to enhance the Littler Mendelson’s knowledge management resources. The Recommind implementation will provide the employment litigation firm’s more than 750 attorneys across 45 offices with one centralized location to securely and accurately access their valuable information.

Littler Mendelson will deploy MindServer Enterprise Search to allow attorneys and staff to quickly research and find documents and work product. The firm will also deploy MindServer Matters & Expertise, a solution that enables professional services organizations to immediately find and collaborate with colleagues with unique expertise or specialized knowledge and to search client matter related information. With the Recommind solution in place, Littler Mendelson will be able to seamlessly find existing knowledge assets within the organization by quickly searching and integrating data from HR systems, portals, document management systems, databases, and workflow applications all from one central location.

Executive quote

“Recommind customers are benefitting from the strong MindServer Enterprise Search integration with SharePoint that delivers top quality results and a high portal user adoption rate,” said Bob Tennant, Recommind’s CEO. “This integration provides leading firms such as Littler Mendelson with a single, powerful point of access to the data they need instantly and in context, providing a powerful return on their technology investments.”

Customer quote

“We are continuously investing in technology resources to improve our client services. By implementing a SharePoint portal powered by Recommind’s search technology, we are providing our attorneys with the best possible knowledge management solution. Recommind’s MindServer search is fast, flexible and effective,” said Michael Williams, CIO of Littler Mendelson. “The platform helps us take greater advantage of our existing knowledge and valuable internal resources, so we’re able to be more productive with less resources.”

Technical specifications

Recommind’s MindServer Enterprise Search and Matters & Expertise tools are built on the company’s MindServer platform, a comprehensive software suite that integrates an enterprise’s numerous applications and information repositories, including Microsoft’s SharePoint portal, enabling fast, easy access to relevant information. The platform substantially reduces the time and costs involved in conducting legal research, while improving the quality of work delivered to the end client. Using patented search technology, MindServer dramatically improves access to a wide variety of information across large, distributed organizations and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and ‘actionability’ of the information.

About the company

About Littler Mendelson
With more than 750 attorneys and 45 offices, Littler Mendelson is the largest U.S.-based law firm exclusively devoted to representing management in employment and labor law matters. As the only U.S. member of the Ius Laboris global alliance, Littler has extensive resources to address the global needs of clients, from navigating foreign employment laws and international labor relations issues to applying corporate policies on a global basis. Established in 1942, the firm has litigated, mediated and negotiated some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record. For more information, visit littler.com.'

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, DLA Piper, Novartis, Lewis Silkin, Shearman & Sterling and Simmons & Simmons. Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, London and Bonn, Germany.

For more information, email info@recommind.com, or go to www.recommind.com.

Contact details

Jason Varden
LEWIS PR for Recommind
415 992 4400
recommind@lewispr.com

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