Legal Research Center

AskFirst™ Knowledge Management Solution

If your workproduct is currently spread among multiple law firms in various locations, in disconnected computer networks, much of it is beyond easy reach and little of it is shared. You may be paying multiple times for workproduct that you already own, but cannot access. Until now.

AskFirst™ - Connecting your legal services team to the content they produce

AskFirst™ is a web-based software suite that enables your corporate legal department to securely retrieve, share, and reuse workproduct with your preferred outside law firms, legal research and legal publishing partners. Using cutting-edge metadata, peer-to-peer, and distributed database technologies to eliminate document coding and central repository databasing, the software delivers seamless searchability across multiple servers. AskFirst's™ breakthrough methods for extracting and comparing metadata from distributed workproduct empower users to view these disparate resources as part of a single universe of related information yielding a unique knowledge retrieval and reuse solution.

Very simply, AskFirst™ eliminates redundancy!

To a degree impossible before now, all the internal or outsourced legal workproduct for which you have paid is available… within files, text documents, e-mails, databases, web pages, spreadsheets, presentations… anywhere and everywhere. With AskFirst™, you can create and securely control your exclusive content network—a single virtual repository—that connects lawyers on your staff to other corporate offices, outside law firms and legal research and publishing partners across the country and around the world.

In short, by using AskFirst™ to eliminate workproduct redundancy, you can:

» Dramatically reduce your spending on labor-intensive research and writing tasks.
» Create new levels of accountability and responsiveness for your outside law firms and
suppliers.
» Generate efficiencies and cost savings of at least 5% off your corporate law department
budget - and 25% off your research/writing budget.

AskFirst™—for measurable savings of both time and money.

For More Information

To learn more about LRC’s AskFirst™ Workproduct Database Software, please contact Jim Seidl at jseidl@lrci.com, or 800-776-9377. To read more about AskFirst™, please click here.