IKON and WorkProducts partner to deliver the Evidence Lifecycle Management solution, MatterSpace ELM - LegalTech West 2008

Business Wire,  June 25, 2008  

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MALVERN, Pa. & FAIRFAX, Va. -- IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN), the largest provider of legal document services in the U.S., today announced that its Legal Document Services team has partnered with WorkProducts to offer customers the leading Evidence Lifecycle Management (ELM) solution, MatterSpace[R]. This partnership will be showcased during the LegalTech West Coast trade show at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 26-27, Exhibit Booth 427.

MatterSpace, offered as a security-permissioned appliance for corporations and law firms, seamlessly combines corporate record management systems with downstream eDiscovery services to support preservation communications and the collection, identification and preservation of both structured and unstructured data for legal discovery. MatterSpace crawls the corporate network for specifically targeted employees identifying, preserving, collecting, indexing and de-duplicating accessible structured and unstructured electronically stored information (ESI). Regardless of where employees and documents are located, legal users can facilitate collaboration among concerned parties and track all matter-specific preservation communications and events, such as litigation holds. Through the automated and repeatable appliance-based MatterSpace processes, legal professionals can fully maintain preservation compliance, while meeting eDiscovery deadlines and cutting expenses. This solution also provides simple set-up for data backup needs and automatically secures the information in an off-site facility. Since all data is digitally encrypted and signed, it can never be read or tampered with by unauthorized personnel.

"MatterSpace, through the ELM discipline, bridges the gap between corporate information management and eDiscovery, providing IT/Information Security/Legal Counsel with a standardized platform to solve matter-specific meet & confer and discovery production challenges in an automated and compliant fashion," said Steve Lilley, Founder/CEO of WorkProducts. "Our partnership with IKON provides customers with the ability to automate the preservation management for thousands of employees and terabytes of data. Showcasing our partnership at LegalTech provides us with the opportunity to discuss corporate and outside counsel's emerging need to be eDiscovery compliant, while reducing costs through our innovative behind the corporate firewall solutions."

Find out more about IKON and the Evidence Lifecycle Management (ELM) Ecosystem by visiting http://www.workproducts.com/elm_ecosystem.

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