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Paul Hastings Selects RealPractice™ as Central Component of Knowledge Management System
Santa Monica, California, October 1, 2004

Practice Technologies, Inc. announced today that the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has selected RealPractice™ for firm-wide Work Product Retrieval. The software will serve as a foundation for the 950-attorney firm's knowledge management efforts.

"Paul Hastings selected RealPractice™ for testing and then deployed it firm-wide after an extensive review of available KM and search solutions," said George Abele, Partner & Vice Chair of the Employment Department at Paul Hastings. "The feedback from our lawyers was that RealPractice™ offered an innovative, straightforward means of accessing our work product. We are excited about leveraging the capabilities RealPractice™ provides."

“Paul Hastings is widely recognized for its trailblazing efforts in the realm of knowledge management,” said Rudolph DeFelice, President & CEO of Practice Technologies. “They’ve long recognized that the firm can both increase revenues and the level of client service they provide by taking better advantage of their accumulated intellectual capital. We believe that RealPractice™ will greatly complement their efforts in this domain, as it will help them both meaningfully define the content they have in their information base, and also allow them to rapidly retrieve on-point work product.”

The RealPractice™ Work Product Retrieval system is built around a legal-specific categorization and analysis engine that understands legal documents from a lawyers’ perspective. It integrates with leading Document Management Systems and automatically profiles documents, enabling precision searching with no user input or changed behavior.

About Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
Paul Hastings conducts a global law practice through an international network of 15 offices linking the world's leading financial and commercial centers. With more than 950 attorneys, the firms serves Fortune 500 and Forbes International 500 clients from 15 offices around the world. Paul Hastings advises and represents clients in corporate, employment, litigation, real estate and tax matters. Learn more about Paul Hastings at www.paulhastings.com.

About Practice Technologies, Inc.
Established in 2000 and based in Venice, California, Practice Technologies, Inc. delivers software and content-based solutions for law firm Work Product Retrieval, a category the Company pioneered. Recognizing the importance of leveraging the firm's intellectual capital, many leading law firms have adopted Practice Technologies' flagship Work Product Retrieval solution, RealPracticeT; it is the first and only tool specifically designed for accessing and using attorney work product. The Company also offers SmartRulesT, a single-search court rules compliance product.

Practice Technologies' major-firm clients include Allen Matkins; Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger; Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; Irell & Manella; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Littler Mendelson; Quinn Emanuel; and Thelen Reid, among others. Practice Technologies, Inc. will continue to set the standard for Work Product Retrieval excellence in the legal profession.

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