Lawsites Review: A ‘Next-Generation’ Product for Researching Corporate Counsel

Ambrogi writes…….For lawyers looking to build their books of business, there is gold to be found in the biographies of corporate counsel. A shared law school or employment connection from the past can mean a foot in the door today.

Lawyers’ ability to find and act on those connections just got a significant boost with today’s release by Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory of a major upgrade and enhancement of its Corporate Counsel Profiler.

Ken Crutchfield, vice president and general manager of legal markets, told me during a preview demonstration that the internal development team referred to this as the “next generation” of the product, and it lives up to that description.

The main search page includes an interactive map, a variety of search filters, and analytics displaying key data.

Today’s release brings an entirely new look to the product, instant data analytics throughout the site, enhanced search and new post-search filters, automatic highlighting of changes in an in-house lawyer’s profile, and new alerts for tracking changes within a legal department.

The release also expands the product’s coverage, so that it now includes more than 50,000 corporate counsel – including email addresses for 90 percent of them – and more than 14,500 legal departments within the U.S., and adds company subsidiaries and the in-house counsel who work for them.

While the primary use of Corporate Counsel Profiler is by lawyers and law firms for business development, law firms also use it to “keep” clients by better understanding how their legal departments are organized and who is responsible for what within the department.

Also, law students use it to look for jobs and internships, Wolters Kluwer says.

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A ‘Next-Generation’ Product for Researching Corporate Counsel