Contact: Dan Safran

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312-876-2787
dsafra
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Pro
oject Lea
adership
p Assoc
ciates La
aunches
s LAP Intranet to
o
boost
b mid-size
m law firm
m produc
ctivity
Chicago o, IL - Octobber 29, 2010 - Project Leadership p Associate es, the largeest
independent busine ess and tecchnology coonsultancy serving the e US legal industry, todday
announc ced the suc ccessful intrroduction of LAP Intra net bringingg productivvity gains an
nd
competittive advanttage to mid--size law firrms. The Leegal Accele erator Product (LAP)
platform
m is designe ed to presennt real-time performannce data via a at-a-glancce dashboa ards
and repo orts, allowin
ng practice group leadders and ma anagers to make bette er decisionss,
deliver im
mproved client work product
p and develop grreater proccess efficienncy.

“This is the
t first of a series of products th hat builds o n our invesstment to en nhance
software e technolog gy for the legal market,, part of ourr commitme ent to leade
ership in the
e
legal fielld, at a time
e when mid dsize law firrms are lookking for ways to provid de more
secure, efficient an nd valuable services to o their clientts,” explain
ns Dan Safrran, Executive
Vice Pre esident, Leg gal Solution
ns of Projec ct Leadershhip Associates.

LAP (Leegal Accelerrator Produuct) Intranett delivers th

he benefits of technolo ogy alreadyy in
place at the large firms to mid-size firms—
—at a fract ion of the ccost. Chicag go based laaw
venfeld Pea
firm, Lev arlstein (LP) was one of
o the first law firms too deploy LA AP Intranet
having realized
r meeasurable and docume ented cost ssavings. Acccording to Angela Hicckey,
Executivve Director and CFO ofo Levenfeld d Pearlstein n: “We are a able to leveerage cost
savings and lower risk—through better managemen
m nt of matterrs in real tim
me via dynaamic
LAP Intrranet graphhical dashbooards.”

The plattform’s colla

aborative to
ools, stream
mlined comm munications and perfo ormance da ata
are available to all members ofo legal firm
ms’ partnerss and staff—
—enabling u users
everywhhere to upda ate informa
ation and av LP lawyers are all about
voiding botttlenecks. “L
working in teams. WeW have be een searching for a pla atform that focuses onn collaborattion.
LAP Intrranet gives us that,” sa
ays Bryan Schwartz,
S M
Managing P Partner of L
Levenfeld
Pearlste
ein.

Underpinning LAP Intranet is Microsoft SharePoint®

S ® and Handdshake tech hnology. Th
he
leading business coollaborationn solution fo or law firmss, SharePoiint® is, in m
many casess,
already part of law firms’ existting infrastrructure. Thrrough Share ePoint®, LA AP Intranett
es with DMS, financiall, CRM inta
integrate ake/conflict and other ssystems to provide up-to-
the-minuute data tha
at speeds decision-ma
d aking and b boosts perfo
ormance.
To learn more about how LAP Intranet impacts law firm productivity, contact Dan Safran
at 312-876-2787 or dsafran@projectleadership.net.

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