The Firm Directory Offers Greater Expertise Discovery Capabilities to Accelerate Business Development Efforts

IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Firm Directory powered by Neudesic Pulse has added and enhanced features to help law firms and legal departments optimize the expertise of their lawyers and other personnel. This leading business collaboration and sourcing software platform now offers greater insight – from administrative, geographical, competency and accolade perspectives – to better enable assignment of talent for the organization's benefit. Visitors to LegalTech New York 2015 will have the opportunity to see these new features in action (booth 419).

"We expect that the Firm Directory will enable us to uncover and promote the capabilities of our lawyers throughout the firm as well to our clients, fostering cross-selling efforts and achieving better outcomes across the board," said Tom Baldwin, CIO, Cadwalader. "We anticipate that these new features will offer a richer, multifaceted view of our legal talent and provide much deeper insight than we've had before. This level of knowledge is a differentiator in our industry and positions our firm for even greater success in the years ahead."

The latest release of The Firm Directory adds several new features and improves on existing capabilities to find the right people within the firm who posses the right skills and expertise to effectively tackle each unique client matter.

• Expertise Finder offers Firm Directory users a new search environment for locating the appropriate firm member based on practices, industries, skills, bar admissions, and other criteria. This highly-customizable feature is particularly useful in quickly finding talent for inclusion in client acquisition proposal decks and business development efforts. It can also be used to get questions answered for in-matter issues, and to streamline knowledge sharing for everyday tasks.
• People Pivot offers the ability to navigate between individual profiles based on shared information such as education, bar admissions and judge clerkships; this allows users to shortlist those whose experience meet specific criteria and quickly review their profiles.
• Role-Based Search allows users to control which search page filters are available to specific people or groups. For example, Human Resources may have the ability to search by home address while others cannot.
• Profile Approval Workflow is a moderation engine that allows marketing and business development to monitor and approve profile content prior to publication; this feature provides a greater level of qualitative control and dependability.
• Leader Boards enable the charting of skills engagement and badges by location, category or title; this allows the firm to better forecast development goals and reward key behaviors.
• Office Map pinpoints the location of where an employee physically sits within the firm via a simple interactive map. The Office Map feature also includes capabilities for integrating with Active Directory and other data sources behind the scenes.
• Profile Print allows users to print hard copies of an attorney profile for review during business development efforts. This document is also ideal for proposals and proposal decks.
• Diversity Management offers guidance on Firm Directory configuration to support a firm's collection of private and sensitive data.

"Since its introduction one year ago, The Firm Directory has given law firms and legal departments the ability to be more strategic in their assessment and assignment of internal talent," said Jason Noble, general manager, product development, Neudesic Pulse. "Over the last several months, we've further refined our capabilities to help firm management better staff projects and align personnel with client matters from the outset. With the knowledge contained within The Firm Directory, firms can quickly find the right attorneys to assemble the best team for the job."

Firm Directory Availability
The latest version of The Firm Directory is available now and can be experienced at LegalTech New York from Feb. 3^rd – 5^th in booth 419. To learn more about the solution or to schedule a demonstration, visit the Firm Directory website or email [email protected].

Additional Resources:

• Follow The Firm Directory powered by Neudesic Pulse on LinkedIn.
• Learn more about Neudesic Pulse and The Firm Directory.

About Neudesic Pulse and The Firm Directory
Neudesic Pulse brings the power of secure on-premise collaboration to the enterprise and empowers organizations to connect people and business systems in real time for more effective, efficient collaboration. The Firm Directory powered by Neudesic Pulse gives law firms and legal departments the means to capture attorney skills and proficiencies with a LinkedIn-style firm directory that can be leveraged to increase cross-selling and knowledge-sharing efforts.

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