Open Text Announces Latest Release of LegalKEY® Practice Support Solutions for Law Firms

Latest Version Delivers New Features to Help Improve Productivity and Ensure Law Firm Compliance

LEGALTECH® 2007, New York City - 2007-01-29 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and solutions, today announced new enhancements to the LegalKEY® Practice Support Suite. The new features are designed to help law firms be more effective, efficient and compliant. The suite provides attorneys and staff with intuitive applications that are not only easy to use but are seamlessly integrated with other productivity and business software deployed at law firms.

Open Text will be demonstrating its award-winning legal business applications beginning today at the 2007 LegalTech® conference held in New York City in the Gibson Suite and at booth #112.

Open Text Legal Solutions provide an integrated product offering developed specifically to support law firms business practices and proactive compliance needs throughout the matter lifecycle from client intake through to final disposition. The latest enhancements to the LegalKEY suite are the result of extensive feedback received from the Open Text user community.

The following new features are now available:

  • Email management. The new Symantec Enterprise Vault application integration allows customers to more easily track and manage emails as official records to improve retention and discovery capabilities. LegalKEY Records Management integration with Enterprise Vault enables users to associate metadata with the emails that are stored in Enterprise Vault and track the email based on the associated matter for those emails. Customers can easily find and manage the retention of all emails based on government regulations or internal policies. Users are provided with the storage advantages of Enterprise Vault while being able to leverage the retention and records management features available in LegalKEY.

  • LegalKEY Docketing/Calendaring. The latest version of Critical Dates Management includes features designed for both law firms and corporate legal departments. New integration between Critical Dates and document management systems enables the creation of reminders and events relating to a document directly from the document. This integration from document, to docket/calendar, to records, is only available from Open Text.

  • Matter Metadata Search. Customers can now run much more granular searches of all of the metadata in the LegalKEY database no matter which product module it resides in. This new feature provides the ability to identify matters based on a variety of attributes to return more thorough and appropriate search results. Firms are able to identify key members of the legal team who have a specific skill set based on previous work done by the firm.

  • Ethical Walls with LegalKEY Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK now offers law firms the ability to setup Ethical Walls from third party applications like New Business Intake (NBI), to ensure client satisfaction and regulatory compliance. Many customers are successfully implementing LegalKEY SDK to build their in-house applications and integrations, including custom NBI.

  • LegalKEY Imaging Agent. This enhanced offering enables customers to process large groups of images into LegalKEY as a batch process. Instead of scanning images on a one-by-one basis, firms can now mass-import images to LegalKEY.

The LegalKEY technologies set the industry standard in records, conflicts and client/matter intake systems. We have a true understanding of the compliance issues and the ways that information flows and is utilized in law firms, said Mohit Thawani, Business Development Manager, Open Text Legal Solutions. This new release once again validates our ability to anticipate and deliver solutions that meet the changing needs of our clients.

LegalKEY customers will also be able to preview the new offerings and expanded portfolio of proactive compliance solutions for professional services firms at Convergence V, the annual user conference for LegalKEY customers to be held May 6 9, at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa in California. More details will be available in the coming weeks, including a link to the Convergence V website, where visitors will find a comprehensive agenda and details of early registration discounts.

About Open Text Legal Solutions
LegalKEY® practice support solutions provide an end-to-end proactive compliance framework to ensure that information is properly captured, reviewed, utilized and stored throughout the lifecycle of a legal matter -- from initial client/matter intake through to final disposition. Open Text Legal Solutions include: New Business Intake , Conflicts Management , Document Management, Records Management and Critical Dates Management systems, all tailored specifically to the way that information flows and is used in law firms. More than 65% of the AMLAW 100, and nine of the top 10 global law firms use Open Text legal solutions. For more information, visit: http://www.opentext.com/2/sol-industry/sol-ind-legal.htm.

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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