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Guides on Selecting Legal Document Management Software Now Available

Key Insight For Managing Legal Documents in Today's Law Firms and Corporate Legal Environments

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 27, 2009 - Workshare announced the availability of two new legal document management guides by collaboration expert Mike Osterman. A Guide to Managing Documents in Today's Law Firms and A Guide to Document Comparison and Security For Corporate Legal review the key challenges legal professionals encounter when exchanging documents and managing document review cycles.

Today's law firms and corporate legal teams need technology to help them deal with legal documents that are created, revised and reviewed on desktop computers, and on the go with laptops and mobile devices such as the BlackBerry. As part of the review cycle these documents are shared with others, who then make modifications and forward them to additional interested parties, who further revise them and circulate them again to even more people. The end result is a mish-mash of document management practices, version control problems, lost productivity, and higher costs.

"Understanding the challenges and how technology can improve collaboration on high value documents often exchanged by legal teams is critical," said Mike Osterman, founder of Osterman Research. "These guides are intended to help corporate counsel, lawyers, IT professionals, and senior management, understand the key issues with legal document collaboration and how to find solutions that solve those challenges."

"For more than 10 years, Workshare has provided industry leading technology to the legal industry," said Alan Fraser, CEO of Workshare. "We are excited to be able to share these guides with the legal teams that frequently implement legal document management solutions."

A Guide to Managing Documents in Today's Law Firms and A Guide to Document Comparison and Security For Corporate Legal are available as PDF downloads at Workshare.com.

About Osterman
Research Osterman Research provides market research, cost modeling, benchmarking and related services to customers of messaging, collaboration and Web-related products, technologies and services.

About Workshare
Workshare, a global leader in technology for the legal industry, enables organizations to control and manage information securely. More than one million professionals rely on Workshare solutions to increase productivity and safeguard their confidential information; ultimately securing their intellectual property, customer relationships and the organization's reputation. Workshare's document comparison and collaboration solutions provide risk management and security to over 14,000 organizations worldwide and has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, London, France, Germany, Hong Kong, and Australia. For more information, visit www.workshare.com.