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News < Back Sarbanes Oxley : Law : Back Office Ensure Comprehensive Management of Electronic and Physical Client Information Throughout the Firm
The expansion accommodates the increase in lawyers and support staff due to the firm?s merger in July 2006, when Buchanan Ingersoll PC and Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling PC merged to form Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. As a result of the merger, approximately 250 Klett Rooney attorneys, government affairs professionals and staff members joined Buchanan's more than 900 employees, creating one of the largest law firms in the country with more than 500 attorneys. While Klett Rooney had already been using LegalKEY Records Management, Buchanan?s record management needs were being fulfilled by two separate providers. Based on Klett Rooney?s positive experience with the performance and functionality of LegalKEY Records Management and the ease to which the Open Text application would integrate seamlessly with the firm?s existing software, the decision was made to implement LegalKEY Records Management exclusively throughout Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. ?LegalKey Records Management is the application that best fits Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's strategy for our matter centric approach to content management,? said Allan R. Henigin, Chief Information Officer at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. ?It fits well with the processes we have designed and have been implementing over the past several years.? LegalKEY Records Management, a core component of Open Text Legal Solutions, provides law firms with a single interface for the comprehensive management of all electronic and physical information related to a client/matter file, regardless of source of origin or media type. It is designed to help law firms minimize risk, and to accommodate multi-tiered retention and destruction policies and risk management protocols. Records professionals can perform full-text indexing on all electronic documents, e-mails and attachments, and document images to provide for the most precise searches possible, making it easy for staff to request, reserve, or modify the information. With LegalKEY Records Management, law firms improve departmental efficiencies by accelerating the recording process and eliminating data integrity issues associated with manual records management practices. ?As a result of the merger, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney had an important choice to make??Which technology provider could best match the records management needs of their combined firm??? said Bill Forquer, Executive Vice President, Compliance Solutions Business at Open Text. ?We couldn?t be more pleased that they recognized the unparalleled sophistication, flexibility, and ease-of-use of the LegalKEY Records Management solution and chose to expand the deployment of the product firm-wide.? Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has approximately 550 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing throughout the United States, with offices in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Alexandria, New York, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Miami, Aventura, Tampa, Wilmington, Princeton, Newark, Cleveland, San Diego and Silicon Valley. Effective July 1, 2006, Buchanan Ingersoll PC and Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling PC merged to form Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. The merger made the combined firm one of the 80 largest in the country. Buchanan has undergone a series of acquisitions and additions during the past 18 months, including: government relations boutique Hill Solutions; a group of nine litigators from Saul Ewing; the 55 attorneys and patent professionals of Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis; a team of IP and business litigators in San Diego; a group of three government relations professionals in Washington, D.C.; a group of seven high-profile tax and immigration lawyers in Miami; and the litigation boutique of Slotnick, Shapiro & Crocker in New York. Buchanan's attorneys have experience in industries that include entertainment and media, pharmaceuticals and biomedicine, nanotechnology, financial institutions, construction, franchise and real estate. Within these and other industries, Buchanan attorneys focus on more than 65 practice areas including Corporate Finance, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Tax, Government Relations, Health Care and Labor & Employment. The firm serves national and international clients that include Fortune 500 corporations, start-ups, technology companies and financial institutions. LegalKEY? practice support solutions provide an end-to-end proactive compliance framework to ensure that information is properly captured, reviewed, utilized and stored throughout the lifecycle of a legal matter -- from initial client/matter intake through to final disposition. Open Text Legal Solutions include: New Business Intake, Conflicts Management, Document Management, Records Management and Critical Dates Management systems, all tailored specifically to the way that information flows and is used in law firms. More than 65% of the AMLAW 100, and nine of the top 10 global law firms use Open Text. For more information, visit: http://www.opentext.com/2/sol-industry/sol-ind-legal.htm. Open Text is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management software. The company's solutions manage information for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the world's largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. Open Text supports approximately 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries and 12 languages. For more information about Open Text, visit www.opentext.com. 
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