Create a Single Source of Truth for All Firm Data

Your attorneys need the power to quickly and easily access firm data and expertise from a single application. Give your firm a strategic advantage over its competitors, whose attorneys are stuck in an endless cycle of searching multiple document systems and compiling disparate information.

In today’s law firms, legal research has expanded beyond finding precedents to reviewing all data within a firm that may relate to a specific matter. Implementing client collaboration or legal knowledge management software can expedite your search and uncover firm data long forgotten.

Handshake enables multiple departments across a firm to expose the data and communication necessary for running a successful law firm, filtered through a single platform.

  • Portals (Intranets)
  • Enterprise Search
  • Expertise Locator
  • Notifications
  • SharePoint Compatibility
  • Mobility
  • Content Designer
  • Integration of Content Libraries
  • Extended Meta Data from Multiple Applications
  • Customizable
  • Security
  • Flexible Migration
  • Seamlessly Integrates with all Practice Management Systems

All Knowledge, One Place

The pace of decision making in law firms globally is accelerating and the sheer amount of information available to decision-makers is growing exponentially. Handshake legal knowledge management software harnesses the information you need, when you need it, through portals (intranets), enterprise search, and expertise locator.

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  • Handshake Connect
  • Portals
  • Handshake Search
  • Expertise Locator

Single Out-of-the-Box Intranet

Your law firm knowledge management intranet in a single out-of-the-box deliverable, with minimal customizations. Create a robust, lawyer-centric workspace that is up and running within weeks instead of months. Handshake Connect provides a user-centric Homepage as well as Administrative, Practice Group, and Office pages, plus a firm directory and practice toolbox. Create more efficient and effective lawyers through the three core Handshake centricities: by user, client, and matter.

  • Full Legal Intranet
  • Persona Driven
  • Connects to Key Systems
  • Live in Weeks

Internal Collaboration

Integrate all firm data into personally customizable portals with easy search capabilities. Quickly aggregate relevant firm documents, expertise, and historical intelligence to save time and reduce the number of requests for information from others. Come to know what you don’t know.

  • Personally customizable
  • Aggregate relevant documents, expertise, and historical intelligence
  • Easily integrate financial, practice, research, ECM, CRM, and records management systems data

External Collaboration

Respond to client demands for transparency with Aderant Drive. Securely share information such as documents, discovery, contracts, filings, financial information, and more in real-time. Provide 24/7 access to the most current status and documents for every matter, for every client.

  • Firm-to-client transparency
  • Share documents and information in real-time
  • Every matter, every client

Security and Scalability

Take sensitive information out of email and leverage your existing technology and security protocols of the Office 365® ecosystem. Scalable and configurable templates that are easily repeatable and customized to meet the diverse needs of each client.

  • Leverage your existing technology
  • Configurable, repeatable templates
  • Turnkey solution

Find Accurate Information with One Search, Quickly

Imagine the power and flexibility in doing search, finding a particular client, and being able to see in-depth and secure financial, contact information as well as the client-related documents without having to leave the search results page. Save time by surfacing the content and resources being used the most in your firm.

  • Save Time, Effort and Money Through Rapid Search Deployment
  • Search all the Content Within Your Organization
  • Customizable Search Results Page
  • Powerful Preview of Documents and Related Information
  • Built-in A.I. Functionality

KM Analytics and Reporting

Generate detailed reports of common searches by role, practice group, office or firm to find trends and identify areas for improvement in efficiency. Leverage your knowledge of your clients and the industry, taking the next step in front-end law firm knowledge management.

  • High-Level to Deep-Dive Reporting
  • Intelligence to Drive Efficiency Improvement
  • Flexible Visualization of Data

Extend Relationship Framework to Mobile Devices

Reuse the bulk of the work for SharePoint portals and mobile devices utilizing the Content Designer to modify and create the user interface. Access your financial, CRM, Time and Billing, ECM, and SharePoint content securely on your mobile device.

  • Access Financial, CRM, Documents and Other Information
  • Ease of Deployment Through App Store and VPN Solutions

Find Internal Expertise Instantly

Based on your firm’s internal data, leverage information from all your systems quickly to identify who the firm’s experts are and why. With Expertise Locator, filter by office, language, profit center or other firm-defined criteria.

  • Save Time, Money, and Effort by Quickly Finding Internal Experts
  • Refine and Filter Searches

Rank Your Experts

You determine the weighting of the expert criteria based on documents, biographies, time entries, client relationships, etc. Easily adjust the weighting of each criterion over time based on firm preferences.

  • Assign Expert Criteria
  • Flexible and Adjustable Weighting

Full Text Results and Content Sources

See all relevant documents for an expert in full text results screen. Select the type of content sources to be searched including documents, research, related cases, expert bios, times entries and more.

  • Select Content Sources

Extend Relationship Framework to Mobile Devices

Reuse the bulk of the work for SharePoint portals and mobile devices utilizing the Content Designer to modify and create the user interface. Access your financial, CRM, Time and Billing, ECM and SharePoint content securely on your mobile device.

  • Access Financial, CRM, Documents and Other Information
  • Ease of Deployment Through App Store and VPN Solution

All Knowledge, One Place

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Knowledge is power. Handshake is the tool.

The only limit is your imagination when it comes to legal knowledge management software. Request a demo today and see where your imagination takes you.