Workshare is distributing two independent legal document management guides to help law firms choose the right document management system.
"A Guide to Managing Documents in Today's Law Firms" and "A Guide to Document Comparison and Security For Corporate Legal" have been writted by collaboration expert Osterman Research. They 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, says Workshare, 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," said Osterman.
The two guides can be downloaded for free at www.workshare.com using the following links:
- "A Guide to Managing Documents in Today's Law Firms"
- "A Guide to Document Comparison and Security For Corporate Legal"
