SharePoint Portals for Law Firms
LawPort is the industry proven, premier legal portal software and SharePoint accelerator that empowers law
firm IT and KM staff to maximize information resources investments, maps tightly to attorney workflow, and
integrates with critical finance, document management and CRM systems.
The Original Award-Winning Legal Industry Portal is Now Even Better
LawPort’s original award-winning legal industry portal has been reinvented to run with SharePoint’s 2013 Standard and
Enterprise Editions. It accelerates your deployment for an immediate real return on your investment – without the painful
and expensive risks associated with internal or consultant development. With LawPort, you can:
• Empower IT with a pre-built legal framework that extends SharePoint’s capabilities
• Cut risks/costs by delivering a purpose-built total solution vs. the unpredictable costs of internal or consultant development
• Accelerate project timelines with an out-of-the-box solution
• Customize easily, leveraging powerful capabilities for non-programmers and SharePoint experts alike
• Benefit from a total software and service package that addresses all requirements immediately
Key Benefits
Ready to deliver, right out of the box
Using LawPort’s powerful out-of-the-box tools, quickly and easily provide a complete representation of firm
knowledge, experience, and industry / jurisdiction / geographic capabilities – no development, coding or
configuration required.
Make it your own
Leverage unlimited custom fields and purpose-built data templates to meet your firm’s specific needs,
now and into the future.
SharePoint, optimized for Law firms
Maximize your SharePoint investment and ensure your information and content are accessible,
affordable – and most importantly, relevant.
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Capabilities and Impact
Structured to mirror law firm workflow and procedures
•LawPort delivers SharePoint views for each of your firm’s
Administrative Departments, Practice Groups, Office locations,
Clients/Matters (as soon as they are activated in Aderant, Elite) and
MyView (as soon as the employee, attorney is activated in Active
Directory)
Emphasize ongoing, transparent data collection
•LawPort extends the ways in which data from existing authority
systems can be referenced, categorized and presented
•Attorneys and KM professionals need aggregated information to
better understand trends, expertise, reusable work product, work
product generation, project and fiscal accountability
•Enables a robust firmwide directory including your staff and attorneys •Lawyers access critical information seamlessly via browser,
with contact information, secretarial assignments, practice group
relationships, attorney biographies, skills and experience
•A proven, flexible taxonomy which you can use as-is, modify or adjust
to mirror existing firm KM classifications, including but not limited to,
Industry, SIC Codes, Jurisdiction, Geography, and Language
Information is provided in context
•LawPort aligns your knowledge management strategy with your
business goals and empowers your staff with knowledge that informs
action
•The “Firm View” of LawPort highlights firmwide practice and business
goals
•Each lawyer’s “My View” provides information of interest to that
lawyer, with links to the relevant applications
•Members of practice groups, administrative departments and offices
have filtered views with information of relevance to their groups
•KM staff and attorneys have matter-centric views of data, documents,
news and experts
any device
•Reduces training burden due to intuitive, purpose-built interface
Integrated web strategy
•Automatically adopts native DMS access rights, ensuring that the right
information gets to the right people
•LawPort delivers Matter-Centricity “out-of-the-box”
•View aggregated financial, DMS, news, CRM or other information by
industry, jurisdiction, language or geography with a built in taxonomy
that is dynamically applied to new data
Extensible system
•Custom applications can be built if desired
•Third-party web parts can be implemented and delivered in the
context of a Client/Matter or classification
•LawPort’s “context provider” makes third-party web parts relevant to
you and your firm
•LawPort delivers real value, with focus on client service rather than on
building and maintaining content management and data connectivity
Data driven strategy
•LawPort is data driven and dynamic
•As people come and go, as new client/matters are opened, news and
articles are generated, experience and skills obtained, and model
documents are updated, data sources within your Intranet are
automatically updated
•Use LawPort to jumpstart your SharePoint implementation and allow
your IT team to focus on utility (attorney value) and not operations
•If you have an aggressive legal SharePoint project timeline and
limited IT resources (or none at all) LawPort will support your needs
immediately, and as your requirements evolve
•Metadata (descriptive information about content) is automatically
structured and applied to your content for easier management,
searching and delivery to users
Hassle-free publishing
•LawPort content management is simple and does not require content
managers to become web technicians
•Content owners are able to add content without IT assistance
•LawPort’s Publishing Wizard steps you through the creation,
distribution and categorization of content
Sign up for one of our free webinars to see LawPort
in action. Visit www.lucidea.com/events for dates
and times.
•Publish once, share with multiple relevant parties
•LawPort’s Publishing Wizard cures “empty portal syndrome”
For more information, visit www.lucidea.com/lawport, call 1–604–278–6717 or email [email protected].
About
©2015 Lucidea
Lucidea is a knowledge management software and solutions company that provides the infrastructure and business process
know–how to help information intensive organizations easily collect, organize, and leverage their corporate knowledge. Our
products improve accessibility and use of information assets for the people who need this knowledge most – employees and
customers – resulting in higher employee productivity, lower operational costs and increased customer satisfaction. With a
global customer base of more than 2,300 active clients in more than 50 countries, Lucidea is the largest provider of knowledge
management solutions to corporations, law firms, non–profits, government agencies, museums, and archives worldwide.
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