Drawing on extensive client work for a number of major law firms, The Henson Group, Inc. (THG) offers a full-service Legal Sector Practice that provides highly customized IT solutions based on the latest Microsoft technology.

THG’s APPROACH
THG’s Legal Sector Practice consists of expert IT consultants who each possess more than five years of practical industry experience designing and deploying mission-critical technology solutions that law firms and corporate legal department rely on to overcome operational challenges.

The legal industry is unlike any other, with a sophisticated array of processes and procedures. Therefore, THG’s Legal Sector Practice boasts an experienced, licensed attorney who provides constant, relevant insight on these business processes.

Furthermore, in early 2003, THG partnered with top technology law firm Miller Mayer, LLP., to introduce a comprehensive, integrated approach to protecting today’s enterprises. THG not only leverages this relationship to gain the optimal perspective with which to better serve its legal clients, but it is the backbone of a comprehensive Security Practice that marries technology with Best Practices to form a security infrastructure and policy.

THG’S SERVICES
THG's Legal Sector Practice provides innovative technologies and strategic thinking that solves many relevant operational issues that affect companies within the Legal industry.

Solutions THG implements include the following:

LexisNexis Integration
THG’s consultants are experts at leveraging ground-breaking Microsoft Office smart tag technology. Essentially, THG can create a custom solution that, among other things, provides a firm with direct access to information through the LexisNexis services from within the Microsoft Word and Excel applications. Specifically, customized smart tags enable users to link to information through the LexisNexis services from case names and addresses in the original documents.

Document Management
Enhancing Document Management capabilities through more seamless technology integration and more proficient database mining and navigation is one key area THG assists law firms and corporate legal departments in increasing productivity. THG customizes solutions that allow users to extract and reuse timely and relevant information from systems and reports. Users are able to more quickly locate and access documents, projects, and Best Practices across the entire company, including file shares, Web servers, Microsoft Exchange Server public folders, and Lotus Notes.

Collaboration
With law professionals spread across a range of geographical locations and disciplines at most large law practices, THG designs solutions that better enable its clients to collaborate seamlessly. Leveraging the combination of SharePoint Team Services and SharePoint Portal Server, THG creates an end-to-end solution that meets the complete information-sharing needs of legal organizations. For example, users can quickly create and contribute to team or project-focused web sites from a web browser or mutually edit documents from a Microsoft Office application.

Office Proposal Accelerator
This solution helps legal firms and corporate law departments to write a higher number of winning proposals with greater speed, effectiveness, and compliance. With THG’s custom solutions, legal industry clients increase revenue by writing more winning proposals and by more effectively deploying resources. Clients are also able to create more compelling, accurate, and compliant proposals using a streamlined proposal development process.