Don Philmlee

I’ve been interviewing a number of large law firms on the topic of Enterprise Search. It seems to be one of the next big technology trends that will allow lawyers to really leverage work product, in-house expertise or other firm assets.

Sure, I know you can turn a search engine loose on internal data and do keyword searches. This next wave of search technology actually learns from the data it searches and creates complex almost human-like relationships in the data. The best example of this is if an attorney is researching a poison pill defense. It is likely that none of the firms documents have include the phrase “poison pill”. These new search technologies CAN make this connection and relate this data. Veryimpressive.