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Seyfarth Shaw Selects Recommind for Enterprise Search

San Francisco - May 06, 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.

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“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.”

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“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.”

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Jason Varden
LEWIS PR
+1 415 992 4400
recommind@lewispr.com

About the company

Recommind's search-powered Information Risk Management (IRM) software automatically organizes, accesses, collects and analyzes large volumes of information from myriad sources to address an enterprise’s critical eDiscovery, compliance, records management and knowledge management needs. With faster, more accurate access to and greater control over information, organizations can lower risk, improve productivity, increase the value of information assets, and improve competitiveness and profits. Recommind customers include Bertelsmann, BMW, DLA Piper, Eversheds, Littler Mendelson, Novartis, and Shearman & Sterling. Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, London, and Bonn, Germany. For more information, email info@recommind.com, or go to http://www.recommind.com.

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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.

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