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MORGAN LEWIS STANDARDIZES ON INSTINCTIVE TECHNOLOGY'S eRoom FOR WEB-BASED CLIENT CLOSINGS
eRoom Speeds Law Firm's Work to Completion and Improves eBusiness Collaboration PHILADELPHIA, PA and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — March 30, 2000 — Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, the nation's fourth largest law firm, and Instinctive Technology, Inc., the leading provider of digital workplaces for eBusiness, today announced that Instinctive's eRoom® application will power Morgan Lewis' expanded use of the Web for the benefit of clients around the world. Morgan Lewis is the first law firm in the AMLAW Global 50 to embrace the potential offered by this technology. eRoom significantly improves lawyer-client efficiency and effectiveness, and virtually eliminates the impact of geographic location, time zone, day, and time of day. Every client, lawyer, and other party — investment banker, banker, accountant, printer — has immediate access to the work that is jointly undertaken in eRoom's digital workplace. It is as efficient to work with someone on another continent as to work with someone a city block away since all that is required is an Internet connection, a Web browser, and a personal computer. Once an eRoom is created, the users take control of the environment and shape it to meet their needs. Morgan Lewis, with more than 1,100 lawyers in 12 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, provides a broad range of legal services to some of the largest multinational corporations, leading investment banking and brokerage firms, as well as many leading companies in the ecommerce sector. As part of its client service, Morgan Lewis provides eRooms to clients and other parties involved in client matters, without charge, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with as little as 30 minutes notice. The Morgan Lewis server for client eRooms is a single-purpose, free-standing, secure
facility attached to the Internet via a high-speed connection. The Morgan Lewis enterprise license with Instinctive permits the use of over 100,000 active eRooms at any one time. "Instinctive's Web-based eRoom is an extremely important lawyer-client work tool, and has received immediate acceptance during our year-long test period," said Tom Sharbaugh, firmwide managing partner for operations at Morgan Lewis. "eRoom is already being used for complex commercial client transactions and financings as well as virtually any other type of client matter that can be done in written form, in a conference, or closing room. Notes and comments can be left in eRoom; even votes can be taken on approval of each document and decision. Clients with multiple transactions also use eRoom to store copies of signed documents for completed deals so that they can be accessed worldwide. In the case of multi-party litigation where numerous parties must review draft pleadings and case developments, eRoom is a particularly well-suited tool. The discovery of new uses for this powerful tool occurs virtually daily as we continue to work with clients in this environment." Stan Wasylyk, chief information officer at Morgan Lewis, who oversaw the selection of eRoom as the firm's enterprise standard, agrees that eRoom is a powerful tool. "The impact of the Internet on the practice of law is very substantial, and Morgan Lewis intends to make full use of this medium for the benefit of our clients." eRoom is the leading Digital Workplace for eBusiness, enabling organizations and their suppliers, partners, and customers to work together over the Internet. eRoom is a secure, integrated, digital workplace that includes a rich complement of functions to get business projects done. With eRoom, distributed teams can work together, share documents, track issues, discuss alternatives, make decisions, meet, and more. eRoom permits the rapid assembling of a project team, wherever people are located, and provides a virtual work "place" for distributed teams, including employees, partners, suppliers, and customers. Today, more than 250 companies deploy eRoom Digital Workplaces to derive new revenue opportunities, bring products to market faster, drive down production costs, enhance customer relationships, and increase employee utilization and satisfaction. ebNetworks, a leading solutions provider and a Computer Horizons company, will work with Morgan Lewis to develop specialized litigation and transactional eRoom templates, and on the full implementation of eRoom infrastructure. ebNetworks, based in Columbia, Maryland, is an Instinctive ePartner SM delivering eRoom extensions, workflow, and solutions. "We are pleased with Morgan Lewis' selection of eRoom, which illustrates the real business benefits that can be gained by leveraging eBusiness collaboration technology for the practice of law," said Jeffrey Beir, president and chief executive officer of Instinctive Technology. "The dramatic cost savings, speed advantages, and increase in employee utilization and satisfaction made possible by eRoom enables organizations such as Morgan Lewis to meet the growing demands of their clients." About Instinctive Technology Instinctive Technology is the leading provider of business-to-business collaboration software products and hosted offerings for professional service firms and manufacturing organizations.
Instinctive Technology's flagship product, eRoom, provides a Digital Workplace for eBusiness that enables organizations to manage their business relationships with suppliers, partners, and customers. eRoom allows our customers to get products to market faster, drive down production costs, enhance customer relationships, and improve the work products that drive their businesses. eRoom is used by more than 250 innovative companies such as Arthur Andersen, A.T. Kearney, Bausch & Lomb, Compaq, Cisco, Deloitte & Touche, EDS, Gillette, Hewlett-Packard, KPMG, Pfizer, Towers Perrin and The Wharton School of Business. More information about Instinctive Technology can be found on the company's Web site at www.instinctive.com. About Morgan Lewis Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, with over 1,100 lawyers in 12 offices throughout the US, Europe and Asia, is one of the top ten law firms in the world (Financial Times, April, 29, 1999). The firm represents many Fortune 500 companies, leading financial services and investment banking organizations, as well as leaders in the biotechnology and e-commerce sector. More information about Morgan Lewis can be found on its Web site at www.morganlewis.com. ###
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