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Mining Invaluable Information with MindServer Legal Enterprise Search

All law firms have invaluable information ' information about cases, precedent, contracts and clients. But in many instances, that information is not readily available. Some is locked away inside the heads of attorneys, and other types of information are stored away under obscure file names in disparate data repositories. <br>About 2 years ago, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. realized we were sitting on a treasure trove of such information. But there was no mechanism in place at the firm that would allow for quick, accurate and broad full-text searches to access firm-wide information and share it among lawyers and staff. So we began looking for a tool that would efficiently open up those repositories of documents and knowledge.

21 minute read March 28, 2006 at 02:50 PM
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Brant A. Freer
Mining Invaluable Information with MindServer Legal Enterprise Search

All law firms have invaluable information ' information about cases, precedent, contracts and clients. But in many instances, that information is not readily available. Some is locked away inside the heads of attorneys, and other types of information are stored away under obscure file names in disparate data repositories.

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