Big Law Brings Big Knowledge Management
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O’Melveny & Myers is building a litigation support tool atop an intranet and enterprise search engine.
“Too big to fail” does not apply to law firms. After Bingham McCutchen, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Heller Ehrman, Howrey and Thelen, everyone knows that. Big law firms, however, are too big to ignore past precedents and their expert knowledge in litigation and transactions, which can differentiate them from other firms. O’Melveny & Myers knows that. The Am Law 100 firm is rolling out a new firm-wide litigation playbook tool built on its OMMNI intranet.
In an interview with Legaltech News, Jeffrey Rovner, managing director of information at O’Melveny, explained that the new litigation tool, called OMMLit, is built into the firm’s existing intranet, called OMMNI. The intranet began in October 2007 as a search tool, namely Recommind Inc.’s Decisiv Enterprise Search.
In a 2011 interview, Rovner said that the most difficult challenge for him after returning to O’Melveny in April 2006 with firm-wide responsibility for information technology (he was previously an associate attorney from 1983 to 1988 in O’Melveny’s public finance group), was to make use of information stored in multiple systems that was not available to the people that needed it. To access that information, Decisiv Search became O’Melveny’s enterprise search tool because it could find documents, matters and expert knowledge—an “expertise finding tool,” said Rovner.
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