A panel discussion given at ILTA13

1. Extra! Extra! Read All
About It – The Latest In
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2. Introducing Our Panel
Matthew Dickinson - CEO – Linex Systems
Rebecca Gebhardt – Managing Director – Linex Systems
Steve Lastres - Director of Library & Knowledge
Management – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dora Martinez - CKO – Sheppard Mullin
Peter Ozolin – CEO & Chairman - Manzama

3. News Aggregators
What are they?
Traditional business uses
How have they been used?
What benefits and value can they bring?

4. Value Proposition of Alert
Services
Provides a competitive advantage by making know-how easily accessible
Increases productivity: knowledge workers don’t waste time searching for
information
Improves organizational effectiveness by sharing relevant and targeted
current awareness
Improves collaboration by fostering knowledge sharing across the organization
Speeds response time to clients
Reduces library staff time by automating the current awareness delivery
model

5. Alert Sources: Free and
Proprietary Alerts
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Google alerts & news
Lexis (Publisher)
Thomson (Westlaw watch)
Westlaw Business
Intelliconnect
Intelligize
Etc.

6. Types of Alerts/Services
Client
Practice Group
People
Organization
Industry
Case law
Regulatory
Docket
Market
Geographic
Smart alerts

7. Centrally Manage Feeds With
Aggregator Services
Create a central repository
Mash feeds together
Search within feeds
Add feeds directly to your alerts
Temporarily archive content from your feeds
Publish curated newsletters targeted to specific groups
to minimize “noise.”

8. DEBEVOISE SOLUTION

9. Ozmosys API Integration with
“My Subscriptions”

10. EOS RSS and Ozmosys
Aggregator

11. Ozmosys Alerts

12. Curated Newsletters: Selecting
Sources and Articles

13. Curated Newsletters

14. Competitive Intelligence

15. Current Awareness Dashboard

16. Stream Content onto Your
Organization’s Intranet

17. SHEPPARD MULLIN
SOLUTION

18. Understanding our Clients’
Business

19. Identifying New Business
Opportunities

20. Generate Content for Blogs &
Client Communications

21. Implementation
What obstacles and surprises were encountered?
How do these solutions affect internal systems and
procedures?
What, if any, adjustments to the original business
requirements were necessary?
What departments/individuals within the firm were involved?
How long did deployment take?

22. Considerations –
Now & Beyond
Awareness of role changes within law firm personnel
Each business need may be different
Simplicity for end users
Sensitivity to different user needs

23. What’s Next? – Use Cases
Growing usage for R&I
Integration with additional systems and platforms
Sharing tools with clients
Preparing for and keeping up with changing
requirements.

24. Questions?
Matthew Dickinson - matthew.dickinson@linexsystems.com
Rebecca Gebhardt – rebecca.gebhardt@linexsystems.com
Steven Lastres - salastres@debevoise.com
Dora Martinez - DMartinez@sheppardmullin.com
Peter Ozolin - peter@manzama.com