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Custom metadata in Atlas makes document management easier and search faster.

How Custom Metadata in Atlas Works

Digitizing case law documentation is one thing, but can you actually find anything in those millions of bytes of data? Here’s how custom metadata in Atlas saves time and quite possibly the legal professional’s sanity.

Case Law – when previous legal cases constitute a binding precedent where the rationale, judgements, legal principles and interpretations of previous cases are documented so they can be applied to new cases – ensures the same practice and application of the law over time. A famous example from the United States is Roe v Wade, but each political jurisdiction, whether local, regional, or national will have hundreds, if not thousands, of cases lawyers are able to review.

With remote working or work from home practices growing, filing cabinets are hardly fit for purpose when it comes to SharePoint document management. So how do legal firms create a SharePoint document management system where previous case law can be collated, stored, and easily accessed online?

Uploading digitized case law documentation is one thing, but without a powerful search and easy-to-use filtering configuration, that particular case you so urgently need becomes the proverbial ‘needle in a haystack’. An intuitive, user-friendly experience here could be essential to a lawyer finding the right case law document … and winning their case.

Combatting corporate memory loss

Preventing corporate memory loss in your workplace will contribute enormously to your people feeling like they’re part of a team and knowing what’s expected of them. In the ‘age of the employee’ it’s the secret ingredient to company success.

Viva Learning - quick intro

Excited about Microsoft Viva Learning?

You may have just seen Microsoft's General Availability announcements about Viva Learning - or perhaps you're simply wondering what Viva Learning is?

Should knowledge management software be an investment priority?

The gist of most boardroom conversations happening right now will be around revenue forecasts and how to still maintain a tight grip on purse strings. In these circumstances would you consider knowledge management software to be a priority or a nice to have? Some might initially answer “a nice to have” but think about the importance knowledge management has had on solving business problems during this pandemic.