So what is MetaJure and how can it help your law firm?
First, you should know that MetaJure was developed by lawyers for lawyers – who were frustrated with the current document and email management systems available today. They experienced first-hand in their law firms and legal departments that document management products demanded time-consuming profiling and uploading. The amount of setup, data conversion, and workflow development was overwhelming to their staff. This led to only a partial buy-in by their staff and their systems only contained a portion of the total documents in their organizations. Documents would still reside on local workstations and in unorganized file structures which may or may not be accessible to all employees.
This made finding documents in these systems a time-consuming task. It translated into wasted, unbillable time.
So what’s the solution? MetaJure’s founders saw how Google could catalog and retrieve information throughout the WEB. A lightbulb went off and they thought “Why not use the same approach in our law firms and legal departments?”
The outcome – MetaJure is born! It is an automated system that takes all the work out of document management. MetaJure automatically captures 100% of the knowledge in your organization and quickly retrieves the information you need when you need it using powerful algorithms. They call it Smart Document Management.
So how does it work? Based on the criteria you determine, MetaJure automatically crawls, indexes, and tags all of the documents, folders, and emails within a law firm or corporate legal department. Whether on workstations, network drives, or other storage sites such as Microsoft® SharePoint®, Worldox®, and NetDocuments®, MetaJure can find it all. Documents and emails stored on individual PCs are copied and centrally stored for secure retrieval. All of this information is then made accessible to your users through a simple, Google-like search that honors any and all underlying permission structures. MetaJure runs on your server behind your firewall or on a secure private cloud hosted by LexisNexis®. The return of results is fast and easy to review.
The illustration below shows how your users would view the results of their search.
If you would like to see MetaJure in action, check out this video.
Next month, find out about the benefits your firm will experience with implementing MetaJure. If you are interested in seeing MetaJure in action, or if you would like additional information, please contact us at 877.357.0555 or send an email to your representative at their individual address or at [email protected].
Jeanine Rhode, a Partner at Software Analysis Corporation and a member of Crosspointe Consulting Group, LLC possesses extensive experience with law office automation and legal technologies. She graduated from Loyola University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Legal Administration and is also a Certified Paralegal. During her 25+ years as a consultant, Jeanine has earned and maintains certifications on many traditional and cloud-based practice management, document management, accounting and time & billing software packages. As a consultant, Jeanine has implemented software in law firms, legal departments and companies of all sizes. She conducts training for all levels of management, one-on-one or in classroom-style environments. Additional experience includes implementing software packages and providing project management skills in non-legal environments. Jeanine is knowledgeable about the capabilities of systems currently in the market. Industry experience includes legal, accounting, manufacturing, real estate and telecommunications, among others for organizations ranging in size from small entrepreneurial to large conglomerates.