Matter Center is a solution developed by Microsoft’s Legal and Corporate Affairs group that helps improve collaboration for legal professionals. We highlight it as a solution that builds on Office 365 and enhances its value as a productivity platform with scenarios relevant in the legal vertical. Microsoft is rolling Matter Center out to all of its legal professionals globally and we are pleased to make it available to our customers and partners via GitHub by the end of calendar year 2015. Microsoft is committed to ongoing contributions to the solution and its roadmap, and by making it available through an open GitHub repository, customers and partners can build or extend the solution to meet specific needs even faster.

Microsoft has been working closely with selected software partners in the legal industry to help improve and augment the Matter Center solution for our customers. Visit our Partners page if you’re interested in procuring Matter Center.

Recognizing the critical importance that collaboration plays in our attorneys’ daily work, we are constantly looking to provide tools to boost their productivity. Matter Center for Office 365 provides legal professionals with an intuitive document management and collaboration solution that harnesses the power of Office 365, SharePoint, and OneDrive for Business to increase their productivity while supporting seamless access from any device. Matter Center makes it easier to organize files by matter, find documents, and collaborate on work product without ever leaving Microsoft Word or Outlook. Because Matter Center works with Office 365 and is built on an enterprise-grade cloud platform, these productivity gains can be realized while also reducing risk and cost.

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