(Vancouver, Canada - January 15, 2009) SydneyPLUS LawPort, one of North America's consistently innovative km solution developers for the legal industry, has just released the 2.0 version of its Expertise Management System.

Invaluable to a firm's bottom line, the Expertise Management System addresses the strong demand within any organization to know who is the best person for a particular job or client case. In the past, this was left to an informal process such as the judgment call of a manager or director. Within larger organizations, this can be especially difficult with their many offices, divisions, languages, and time zones to contend with.

The social networking 2.0 version of the SydneyPLUS Expertise Management System makes the job of finding the right person easier than ever, while ensuring sensitive information remains private to the firm. The system can easily match personnel's skills and abilities with critical tasks, maximizing the potential of these valuable resources. The system features such capabilities as;

• Ability to extend, store and track any and all staff profile information needed by the firm
• Ensuring staff profiles are always current by extending self-updating capabilities directly to staff
• Providing global profile management security controls that ensure staff only update their own profiles

Now firms can track, match and leverage the skills and experience of their staff to any need the firm may have. Whether it be staff that have specific language skills, staff that have a similar hobby to a favorite client, or staff that have familiarity with certain obscure government regulations, if the information is profiled, the match can be made.

The new 2.0 capabilities of the SydneyPLUS Expertise Management module are provided to clients as part of SydneyPLUS LawPort's add-on module extensions. Clients can arrange a demonstration with their Account Representative, or contact sales@sydneyplus.com for more information.

SydneyPLUS LawPort® is the legal industry's leading Web foundation, portal and knowledge management applications suite. At its core, LawPort® provides a complete Web infrastructure, integrating the Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites to unleash and organize critical information previously locked in the firm's back office systems. LawPort's® comprehensive suite of legal applications, including Matter Centricity, Knowledge Management, Proposal & Bio Management, Experience Tracking, SharePoint/.Net Collaboration, and Financial Modeling, provide unique and out-of-the-box value to law firms. For more information about SydneyPLUS LawPort® visit www.lawport-sydneyplus.com.