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San Francisco - The global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Legal OnRamp jointly announced that founding investor Orrick has increased its investment in Legal OnRamp, the legal web 2.0 collaboration leader. 
 
"At Orrick, we are working closely with our clients to bring greater innovation and efficiency to the delivery of high value legal work," said Ralph Baxter, Chairman & CEO of Orrick. "We believe the approach pioneered by Cisco and commercialized by OnRamp is a significant contribution to the transformation of the law firm-client relationship."
 
Launched in 2007, Legal OnRamp is an integrated, online collaboration platform for law departments and law firms.  With more than 11,000 members and currently used by over 400 companies and more than 150 law firms, Legal OnRamp provides both secure collaboration platforms used by leading legal departments like Cisco to more efficiently manage day-day legal work and integrate outside law firms, and the open OnRamp community for non-privileged content sharing and collaboration. 

"Through its partnership with Legal OnRamp, Orrick recognized early the opportunity to drive enhanced efficiency in the legal service model," said Paul Lippe, CEO of Legal OnRamp.  "With the commitment of firms like Orrick, and the availability of collaborative resources like Legal OnRamp, we are seeing real change in that paradigm."  
 
Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President, Legal Services, General Counsel and Secretary, Cisco Systems, and one of the creators of Legal OnRamp.

“Everywhere we look, Collaboration is accelerating as a way to improve productivity and reduce costs.  Legal OnRamp is the leader in the legal world, and one of the most sophisticated collaboration platforms in any field. Orrick is a leader among firms and their continued partnership with OnRamp will serve them well in the changing environment.”

Richard Susskind, author “The End of Lawyers?” and noted legal futurist and commentator.
 
“It is becoming increasingly clear that online community and collaboration will underpin tomorrow’s legal industry. In this area, the world’s leading platform is Legal OnRamp. What has been less obvious is which firms would be innovative enough to seize the lead.  We can now see that Orrick is one firm that will be leading the charge.”

About Legal OnRamp
Started by General Counsels, Legal OnRamp is the leading Web 2.0 Platform for law, helping legal departments reduce costs and improve quality through Collaboration. Other investors in Legal OnRamp include the Corporate Executive Board and Allen & Overy.

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