Interwoven, Inc., an enterprise content management (ECM) company, and Workshare, provider of content change applications for professionals, announced the availability of the Legal Document Acceleration Suite (LDAS). Designed as the ultimate document productivity solution for corporate and law firm settings, the LDAS is the first end-to-end integrated solution for efficiently generating, controlling and protecting legal documents when routing them via e-mail to multiple parties.
The LDAS dramatically reduces time spent on non-billable tasks for law firms -- allowing them to provide better and more effective client service. The LDAS seamlessly combines key features of Interwoven's Worksite 8 collaborative document and e-mail management platform with the Workshare 3 application for managing document changes in one solution. The LDAS integrates directly with Microsoft Word to ensure that document versions, edits, comments and e-mail communications remain linked and review cycles stay efficient and on track. As a result, the LDAS can reduce the number of tedious, manual steps involved in producing, managing and distributing complex legal documents by up to 70%, enabling higher productivity and compliance with the firm's risk management goals.
"While the proliferation of e-mail has made information sharing faster and easier, the process of managing communications, revisions and overall document production has never been more complex," said Richard Silvey, assistant director, applications at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. "By automatically linking and filing e-mails and documents around a given matter, the LDAS will provide a welcome structure to an otherwise overwhelming communications process. Together, these companies have designed an elegant solution for minimizing complexity and eliminating time-consuming and tedious manual processes that add no tangible or financial value."
Key Features and Benefits
* Integrated Matter Exchange: Both Workshare 3 and WorkSite 8 Server software, the key components of LDAS, seamlessly provide relevant information on "matters." The LDAS automatically manages the filing of e-mails and documents that are e-mailed to reviewers into dedicated "matter" folders. By automating this manual process, the LDAS ensures that a record of the e-mail and document is available in the document management system and not locked away in a users' inbox;
* Improved Document Accuracy: The LDAS streamlines document review cycles by allowing users the ability to generate and view document comparisons and accept or reject all changes from reviewers in a single window;
* Reduced Risk: The LDAS reduces risk to law firms by automatically stripping out sensitive, and often hidden, metadata information, including tracked changes, comments, notes and authoring details, to protect against inadvertently sharing sensitive information;
* Increased Document Protection: The LDAS offers on-the-fly PDF file conversion, protecting against accidental changes or unwanted editing of documents; and
* Easy Deployment and Management: The LDAS is a fully integrated solution with one common user interface and is optimized for easy deployment and management, minimizing the need for IT support and training.
As long-time leaders in the legal market, Workshare and Interwoven have both seen first hand how the document production cycle can make or break the overall productivity of a law firm or legal department," said Mark Hadfield, executive vice president of Strategic Alliances of Workshare. "Both companies have invested in a tightly integrated solution because we want to ensure that our customers have the option to really accelerate this process and free themselves from frustration and better focus on their clients and on their business."
"By joining forces with Workshare, we are bringing together three critical components of the legal desktop -- Word Processing, E-mail, and Document Management -- to help attorneys work with documents and e-mail more efficiently than ever before," said Dan Carmel, vice president, legal and enterprise compliance solutions for Interwoven. "The LDAS will reduce headaches across the customer spectrum, from IT manager to support staff to attorney, by cutting redundant and manual tasks and making it faster and easier to find, approve, retrieve and protect documents."
Availability
The LDAS will be available in August from Interwoven and Workshare. For more information about the LDAS, visit http://www.interwoven.com/events/legal/LDAS.html , and return to this site for further information on upcoming Webcasts and seminars.
