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Mega Law Firm Skadden Begins Using Litéra Content Lifecycle Products By Rebecca E. Neely First mega law firm DLA Piper, and now Skadden, have both recently begun using Litéra products, contributing to a growing trend.
According to an October 5th prnewswire.com press release, Deepak Massand, Litéra’s CEO was quoted as saying: “Litéra has a singular focus to meet client needs for ‘content confidence’ with innovative solutions such as the ability to compare the total document with all embedded objects such as Excel, Visio, Chemdraw, etc. Skadden and industry leaders recognize the quality and productivity gains from our software solutions.” Founded in 2001, by Massand, Litéra has brought the company to its current status as the global leader in content lifecycle management (CLM) with solutions for secure document creation, collaboration, comparison, control and cleansing. The company’s products empower law firms and corporate clients to enhance their document related business processes, giving them an immediate return on investment. Massand has 25 years of executive level management experience. He served as the President and CEO of Merz Pharmaceuticals. He also held a variety of senior management positions at Johnson and Johnson, including Executive Director.
Litéra’s patented Change-Pro® product enables legal professionals to compare and analyze today’s complex, sophisticated documents on a granular level for true document accuracy and reliability, thus decreasing risk. Many documents today contain a broad range of embedded objects and images, including Excel, Visio, ChemDraw and SmartDraw objects, and imported jpg, gif, tiff, bmp and png images. According to information at Litera’s website, Steve Agnoli, Chief Information Officer at K&L Gates was quoted as saying: “Litéra’s Change-Pro has become a vital component of our document management processes because it compares critical documents in their entirety, we can better assure content accuracy and reliability and reduce the risk of costly errors. We are very pleased with Change-Pro’s functionality and easeof-use.” Global law firm DLA Piper has over 4,200 attorneys in 76 offices in 30 countries. Founded in 1948, law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates has over 2,000 attorneys in 24 offices, and is based in New York City.
Litéra is a Gold certified Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV). The company’s content lifecycle management solutions enable users to create, collaborate, compare, clean and convert business documents across the entire content lifecycle.
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