EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today announced that DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP, the second largest law firm in the world based on revenue, is successfully using EMC Documentum eRoom® software to facilitate online collaboration on global legal cases with attorneys, clients and co-counsel firms. Accessible 24/7 worldwide via the Internet, the eRoom intuitive shared workspace provides authorized parties a central place to view and update all case documents. DLA Piper credits Documentum eRoom with saving the firm 15,000 hours annually, helping it gain a competitive edge, and preventing information security breaches of confidential documents.

Michael Tominna, Collaboration Systems Manager at DLA Piper, said, "Without a central place dynamic repository for information, we were experiencing lot of redundancy and wasted time and expense sending materials back and forth, both in paper and e-mail. With EMC Documentum eRoom, everyone shares the same information in real-time. They know who is working on what documents, which versions are most recent and what deadlines are approaching."

With Documentum eRoom, Tominna conservatively estimates that the firm saves 250 hours a week by eliminating the sending and resending of e-mails, reconciling revisions that contradict one another, and fielding phone calls from clients asking about the status of their cases. Because DLA Piper employs more than 3,100 lawyers in 22 countries and 58 offices around the world, coordinating and collaborating on cases across multiple time zones and geographies can be a formidable challenge.