LawPort is configurable for the needs of both large and mid-sized law firms. The typical large firm has over 200 attorneys dispersed across multiple geographic locations and practices, resulting in a culturally diverse and complex environment. Mid-sized firms have fewer than 200 attorneys and tend to be more centrally focused in terms of locations and practices. LawPort can be adapted to the needs of your firm, whether it is large, mid-sized or growing.
LawPort is built to mirror the workflow and processes of attorneys, legal staff and law firms, with an organizational framework that enhances internal access to information. It provides logical views (or "pages") of information in ways that map to firm structure and procedures, , i.e., practice groups, administrative departments, offices, matters, clients, and a personal "My View.” It permits the building of custom views for other entities in the firm, such as committees, pro bono initiatives, community affairs teams and others. While LawPort is preconfigured as a best practice Intranet solution (page layouts, look & feel, menu structure, etc.), it also provides file import utilities for your people, practice groups, matters and clients, to reflect each firm's unique information. It is easily customizable for firms that want to vary from the standard implementation.
LawPort is the leading web infrastructure, portal and knowledge management solution for large law, implemented by more than 25 of the top firms. Large firms have typically been able to invest in web technology in an effort to optimize efficiency and collaboration. Efficient collection, organization and distribution of a firm’s intellectual capital (both internally and externally in some cases) has become increasingly important, most especially for those firms with a leadership team that values cross-practice, cross-geographic, and even cross-industry client service. In addition, visionary law firm leaders understand that it is critical to efficiently and effectively offer enterprise access to data and information about the firm’s people, processes and financial operations as part of the growing focus on the business of law. The legal industry has now moved to embrace Microsoft’s SharePoint as the platform of choice for building web-based portal and knowledge management infrastructures. If you are on a SharePoint platform, you should know that the all new, all MOSS edition of the original, award-winning legal industry portal is now fully compatible with SharePoint’s Standard and Enterprise Editions, allowing you to accelerate and optimize your MOSS deployment, and immediately see a real return on your investment, without painful, expensive customization.
Most mid -sized law firms have not yet realized the benefits available with a best practice portal solution, given budgetary and IT bandwidth constraints. LawPort changes the landscape significantly by providing strategic web software that could only be implemented by large firms in the past. LawPort for mid-sized firms incorporates the features, functionality and best practice process improvements that are inherent to LawPort into an “out-of-the-box" solution that mid-sized firms can afford.