Law Firm Brief Banks

From: Frank Drake (arnstein1@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 10:16:55 PDT


I know this has been discussed on law-lib before, but I couldn't find anything in the archives.

We are using Imanage as our document managing program, but I would assume that libraries using other similar programs would be doing some management of the bank of research done at their firms over the years.

We used to have a (very inefficient) paper brief bank, but that hasn't been kept up for ages.

Imanage, like many document management programs does allow for full-text retrieval, but retrieving relevant documents without pulling up way too much irrelevant material of a non-research nature doesn't seem practical, especially as the document bank had grown mightily over the years.

What are other firms doing in relation to their document management systems to maintain a 'brief bank'?

Many thanks in advance for your assistance, and I will summarize for the list.

FRANK DRAKE
Arnstein & Lehr LLP
CHICAGO



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