Open Text to Showcase Proactive Compliance Solutions at LegalTech® Conference in New York

Open Text will Demonstrate How Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments Can Reduce Risk, Streamline Processes, Improve Productivity and Ensure Compliance

Chicago, IL - 2007-01-18 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and solutions, today announced that it will showcase its industry-leading proactive compliance solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments at the 2007 LegalTech® conference to be held in New York, NY, January 29 - 31 at The Hilton New York Hotel. Open Text will hold a series of presentations daily on solutions for law firms in the hotel s Gibson Suite and will present compliance offerings for corporate legal departments in booth #112 on the conference floor.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with Open Text executives for one-on-one discussions and learn more about the Open Text Legal Solutions suite including LegalKEY® New Business Intake , Conflicts Management , Records Management and Critical Dates Management systems. Designed to complement law firms' existing technologies and business practices, these solutions enable a firm to bill faster, mitigate risks, streamline processes, improve efficiency and become better organized.

The following presentations for law firms will be offered each day by Open Text experts in the Gibson Suite:

  • Legal Solutions Road Map;
  • Matter Centricity: A Quick Look at Best Practices;
  • Interactive Conflicts Resolution (ICR);
  • Legal Solutions: Library Management, Litigation Management and More.

At booth #112, Open Text will showcase the following solutions and products for corporate legal departments:

  • Litigation Management, which brings together Open Text s leading records management offering with TCDI s ClarVergence, a proven litigation support solution. Open Text s eDiscovery solution gives enterprises the ability to manage collection, review, and production in-house as litigation arises and to put in place a program of long-term, proactive management of content anything from informal email to formal contracts that may be subject to discovery.
  • Library Management designed to automate legal library cataloging, searching, circulation, serials control and acquisitions functions for books and other library materials.
  • Federated Query Server which provides unified search access to information repositories, file systems, document management systems, and intranets to aggregate collections for discovery.
  • Email Archiving for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes to manage email archiving to minimize the cost of operations and optimize system performance, ensuring email content is captured into a central, single system of record supporting compliance and discovery.

Open Text is the leading independent provider of ECM solutions that address the governance, risk and compliance challenges facing law firms and corporate legal departments, said Bill Forquer, Executive Vice President, Compliance Solutions Business at Open Text. Our level of expertise and the large number of clients that use our products and solutions -- including nine of the top 10 global law firms -- is a testament to our success in the legal community. We look forward to showcasing our entire portfolio of compliance solutions at LegalTech New York.

For more information on LegalTech® New York 2007, please go to http://www.almevents.com/r5/cob_page.asp?category_id=41146.

About Open Text Open Text is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management software. The Company's solutions manage information for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the world's largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. Open Text supports approximately 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries and 12 languages. For more information about Open Text, visit www.opentext.com.

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For more information, please contact

Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com

Richard Maganini
Open Text Corporation
1-847-961-0662
rmaganin@opentext.com

Brian Edwards
McKenzie Worldwide
+1-503-577-4583
briane@mckenzieworldwide.com