England – 12 October 2004 – Wragge & Co’s head of IT, Nigel Blackwood, said: “One area of business pressure for us at the moment is compliance. We need a solution that enables us to manage and track documents from creation to deletion. We see the move to WorkSite 8, and importantly its email and records management components as key to providing our firm with full document lifecycle management. This encompasses creating, filing and archiving documents and related emails, sharing these documents and providing a full audit trail of usage and access.”

Matthew Cleverdon, technology development manager, said: “One important aspect of the technology in use at our firm is the ability to share and integrate information between all of our core systems. Interwoven’s transparent approach to integration with our other solutions will enable us to continue to deliver leading edge functionality both to our lawyers and our clients.”

Geoff Hornsby, director of the UK legal group at Interwoven, said: “We are very pleased that Wragge & Co has decided to invest in Interwoven WorkSite 8 and Records Management and we look forward to working together to ensure our technology can best enhance client service.”

Derek Southall, partner and head of strategic development, said: “Effective IT systems and products are central to our ability to offer clients the best possible service. Choosing WorkSite 8 as our new document management system fits with this strategy. It allows our lawyers to work more efficiently and productively, which adds up to improved service delivery.”

Wragge & Co has established a reputation as one of the UK’s most innovative law firms, using technology to offer portals and dealrooms, where clients have direct access to bills, reports, know-how and matter management information. This year it has been named Law Firm of the Year at In Brief magazine’s annual e-LOTIES awards. It has also submitted a US patent application for Project X, its award-winning quotation and transaction management tool.

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Notes to editors:
This press release may contain information of general interest about current legal issues, but does not give legal advice.

Wragge & Co LLP is a major UK law firm providing a full range of legal services to businesses worldwide. Our client base includes over 30 FTSE 100 companies – such as BP, BT, GlaxoSmithKline, Marks & Spencer, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, 3i (panel), Smiths Group – and some of the world’s largest and most successful organisations – H.J. Heinz, RMC Group (panel), British Airways, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, E.ON, McDonald’s, Enterprise Inns, BUPA, RHM, William Hill, Castlemore Securities and ProLogis Developments. Around 25% of our work is international and we have an association with leading independent German law firm Graf von Westphalen Bappert & Modest.

Wragge & Co’s core work areas are corporate, real estate, human resources, dispute resolution, finance projects and technology. Many of our teams are acknowledged to be among the best in the UK - Intellectual Property, Employment, Private Equity, Outsourcing, Real Estate, EU and Competition, E-Marketing, Pensions and Construction.

As the UK’s largest law firm with a main base outside London, we operate on a lower cost base than almost any corporate firm with equivalent strength, depth or resource. With 1001 people including 111 partners (1st May 2004) we have the resource to handle the largest transactions and many of our lawyers are the UK’s top experts in their fields. We are the largest professional firm in Birmingham, a major employer and exporter of legal services outside the region.

Wragge & Co is renowned for its outstanding quality and client service, people culture and leading edge technology:

• Wragge & Co is 22nd on The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For and 33rd in the Financial Times 50 Best Workplaces in the UK.
• Wragge & Co is the largest UK law firm to achieve quality standard ISO 9001:2000.
• Wragge & Co has been awarded Best Use of IT by National Firm and IT Team of the Year.
• Legal Business awarded Wragge & Co Employment Team of the Year 2004.
• Wragge & Co won the first 'Business Charter Award' for its positive impact on and contribution to the local community.

Our pro-bono and community activity is based on support in five areas; free legal advice, homelessness, education & mentoring, inner city projects and charity support. Wragge & Co people have voted Fireside, a Birmingham based organisation supporting the city's homeless, to be the firm's principal charity for 2003/04.

For more information please visit wragge.com