West km is a knowledge management solution designed for the unique needs of lawyers.
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The Importance of Knowledge Management
Law firms, corporate legal departments, and legal offices in government agencies create volumes of documents and work product each day. These documents represent the intellectual capital of the organization - its best thinking and experience. Knowledge management solutions that unlock the value of this in-house work product can provide organizations with a distinct competitive advantage. West km not only makes this possible, but makes it easy.
How West km Can Help Your Organization
West km is designed to increase knowledge sharing in your organization by combining access to your organization's collection of work product and leveraging your document management system (DMS), Westlaw® research, and document creation. You can quickly find relevant documents and gain insight and understanding from both internal and external knowledge and expertise.
West km Enterprise
West km is the premiere knowledge management product for legal organizations. It offers you four powerful enterprise solutions that are specifically designed for the knowledge management needs of the legal industry. They include West km Foundation Services, West km for Litigation, West km for Transactions, and West km Deal Proof®.
West km Foundation Services
West km Foundation Services provides the core West km software components that enable you to capitalize on the benefits of West km. With West km you can
- Reuse your organization's best work, regardless of practice area
- Enhance quality and consistency
- Increase knowledge sharing and transfer
- Improve productivity and avoid "reinventing the wheel"
- Help junior associates benefit from the experience of more seasoned professionals
- Maximize the value of your organization's investment in a DMS
- Integrate your organization's own information archive with Westlaw, West's widely used online legal research system
- Retrieve documents in word-processing format for easy editing and repurposing.
- Collect and classify documents automatically
- Ensure security because all documents remain onsite and are secured by your organization's firewall and network
West km for Litigation
West km for Litigation is an add-on module to West km Foundation Services that is ideal for use by everyone involved in the process of managing litigation matters. It incorporates familiar West features such as the KeySearch® taxonomy and KeyCite®, West's powerful citation research service, to help you view and search internal documents from your organization, as well as publicly available information on Westlaw.
West km for Transactions
West km for Transactions is an add-on module to West km Foundation Services that simplifies and accelerates the transactional law process. At the heart of West km for Transactions is a patented text-mining engine that uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract and precisely tag significant content in your transactional documents. This analysis helps speed up and simplify your deal research, due diligence, and document drafting.
West km Deal Proof
West km Deal Proof provides intelligent document analysis, summarization, and proofreading functions to automate the review of legal documents for improved document quality. It is tailor-made for legal professionals to help expedite the document drafting process.
Consult the Experts
Thomson West's consulting services team ensures that your organization applies the best practices in the industry for knowledge management. Our technical and project management experts provide unmatched product knowledge and understanding of knowledge management in the legal industry.
Your Partner in Knowledge Management
Thomson West is a leading provider of integrated information solutions to professional services organizations worldwide. Thomson West is a business within The Thomson Corporation and is a premier provider of financial and practice management systems to the legal industry and to other professional service markets, including accounting, engineering, marketing services, and management and IT consulting.
Contact Thomson West to put the power of West km to work in your organization today. For more information on West km, contact your Sales Representative or call 1-800-227-0721 for assistance.