Shook, Hardy & Bacon Selects Recommind for Firmwide Information Management

Top International Law Firm Selects Recommind for Search and
Expertise Location Using MindServer(TM) Platform
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic
categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms,
today announced that Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a top international law
firm, has chosen Recommind's MindServer(TM) Legal platform to power
its internal information retrieval system. The MindServer Legal
platform enables Shook, Hardy & Bacon's partners, associates,
analysts, and paralegals in nine offices around the world to more
effectively search, access and manage information to support client
objectives in a cost-effective manner.

"We selected Recommind's MindServer Legal platform because our
lawyers, analysts, and legal staff found it intuitive to use,
identifying not only relevant documents and files, but also the
on-point expertise of individual lawyers and analysts in the firm,"
said John Anderson, CIO at Shook, Hardy & Bacon. "In comparison with
other platforms, Recommind's platform was more effective and will take
employees less time in the searching process, leaving more time for
clients."

Recommind's MindServer Legal is a comprehensive software suite
that integrates a legal department or firm's critical information
repositories, 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 conceptual search and
categorization technology, MindServer Legal improves access to a wide
variety of information and expertise across large, distributed legal
departments and external sources and returns results in context for
more accurate understanding and actionability of the information.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon has chosen to deploy the following MindServer
Legal components:

-- Enterprise Search, which utilizes powerful, concept-based
search capabilities to connect relevant information in
document management, records management, portal and e-mail
systems and myriad other applications and databases with the
attorneys that need it.

-- Matters & Expertise which provides a comprehensive, firm-wide
view of matters, deals, cases, and the vast array of expertise
contained within a firm by tapping into a variety of
information sources such as time and billing systems, CRM
applications, intranets, internal firm databases and other
information repositories.

"As the legal industry continue to diversify, it is vital that all
workers have an effective means of sharing and using information,
including taking full advantage of the individual expertise of workers
dispersed around the globe," said Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind.
"Shook, Hardy and Bacon has empowered its people to leverage the value
of the data it holds through the intelligent automation of information
management. With a broad network of practice groups spanning the
globe, Shook, Hardy & Bacon is a very well-respected firm that
Recommind is excited to have as a customer."

About Shook, Hardy, & Bacon

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. is an international law firm with a
legal legacy spanning more than a century. Established in Kansas City
in 1889, today the firm has grown to more than 1,507 employees
worldwide, with 502 attorneys and 262 research analysts and
paraprofessionals. Many of the research analysts hold advanced
degrees, in biochemistry, neuroscience, engineering, genetics and
physiology. The firm has nine offices strategically located in Geneva;
Houston; Kansas City, Missouri; London; Miami; Orange County,
California; San Francisco; Tampa, Florida; and Washington, D.C.

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 the
Australian Government, Bertelsmann, BMW, Cleary Gottlieb, Davies
Arnold Cooper, Lewis Silkin, Novartis and Shearman & Sterling.
Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New
York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Bonn, Germany. For more
information, email info@recommind.com, or go to www.recommind.com.

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