Autonomy (News - Alert) announced that its Meaning Based Governance platform has been selected by Bingham McCutchen LLP. All contents and knowledge management requirements of Bingham will be managed by standardizing Autonomy’s platform. An announcement in this regard has been made by Autonomy Corporation, a top global company in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Bingham McCutchen is a top law firm in the world.

Since 2003, Bingham has been using Autonomy’s the iManage WorkSite product. A collaborative environment is provided by the product to the lawyers. They can store all of their case matter documents and also track updates, milestones, and client communications with this product. Additional Autonomy products like iManage Universal Search or IUS, iManage Records Management and iManage ConflictsManager have been selected by Bingham recently. These products will help Bingham to meet its growing compliance needs.

Case matter documents will be easily located irrespective of the location by more than 2,400 globally dispersed users of Bingham by using IUS. They can also effectively respond to business development opportunities in real-time. In order to seamlessly manage the lifecycle of all records, the iManage Records Management solution will be implemented by Bingham.

With iManage ConflictsManager, Bingham can reduce the risk and time required for its new client vetting process. The time-consuming steps in the vetting procedure will be automated by iManage ConflictsManager. This will help Bingham in minimizing the risks associated with this process.

"As a leading international law firm with a dispersed workforce, we rely heavily on the right technology to connect our lawyers with the most relevant information and experts in real-time,” said Robert Meadows, CIO, Bingham. “We view the Autonomy suite of products as a cornerstone of our document management, records management and knowledge management initiatives.”

Meadows added that with these solutions from Autonomy, the firms operations would be streamlined. The productivity of the lawyers would also be increased.

According to Neil Araujo, CEO of Autonomy Protect Legal Systems, a vital role is played by technology in an attorney's ability to deliver high quality services in a timely, efficient manner.

Lawyers can now pinpoint the exact information and firm expertise needed to help their clients succeed with solutions from Autonomy.

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