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In our client's words

As a Law Firm, knowledge is our key asset. Organizing, finding and re-using our knowledge makes us a better firm and more successful as a business. We looked at numerous CMS platforms to work in collaboration with our Document Management Enterprise Software. Lexicon had, by far, the most flexibility to classify our knowledge assets and to adapt to our business requirements.

Ivo Nikolov
Director Information Technology
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Overview

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP has more than 220 lawyers in offices in Toronto, Montréal, and New York. The firm is consistently rated one of the top business law firms in the country and ranked by independent rating agencies as a market leader in their core practice areas.

Challenge

DWPV's key asset is the knowledge it possesses in its various practice areas. The problem they faced was organizing and sharing this knowledge throughout the firm.

  • Too much time was required to locate and draft critical documents based on legal precedents and previous cases.
  • Difficulties to share best practices and to rapidly develop knowledge and skills of newer staff.
  • Using costly technical resources to post and index thousands of documents online.

Solution

DWPV chose Lexicon CMS over several branded software packages (Hummingbird, Interwoven, Plumtree) because of a combination of ease of use and flexibility they required to deploy a company-wide knowledge management system.

Results

Following the implementation of the intranet the firm realized a variety of positive impacts.

  • More responsive to client matters.
  • Strategic advantage with better trained and informed legal counsel.
  • Documents managed by legal experts not technical resources.

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