Leading Benelux Law Firm Relies on Sinequa for Insights and Expertise

NEW YORK , Jan. 09, 2018 -- Sinequa, a leader in cognitive search and analytics, today announced that Stibbe relies on Sinequa’s Cognitive Search & Analytics platform to look deeply into vast legal matters, documents and litigations to provide its multidisciplinary lawyers better insights while accelerating compliance with EU-based General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Stibbe is an internationally-oriented, full-service law firm in the Benelux, with main offices in Amsterdam, Brussels and Luxembourg, and branch offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, London and New York. Stibbe’s practice covers a wide variety of expertise, including corporate and finance, employment and pensions, energy, environment and planning, EU and national competition law, information technology, intellectual property, litigation and arbitration, public law, real estate and construction and tax law.

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In Stibbe’s case, one of the biggest challenges facing law practitioners in recent years has been retrieving information from many different sources. Across the firm, lawyers and staff members need to find information stored in various information silos, including SharePoint knowledge bases, document management systems and large Outlook mailboxes.

Commenting on the use of Sinequa’s solution, Stibbe’s Brussels Head of ICT, Olivier Van Eesbeecq, said, “By using Sinequa’s Cognitive Search & Analytics platform, our lawyers and staff members are no longer losing valuable time when searching for information in our different content and knowledge sources thanks to its advanced capabilities and its ease of use.”

The production application enables Stibbe’s lawyers and staff members to work more productively by making it easy to find information. The application also helps with information security, as it exposes sensitive material that may have been stored improperly.  The power and thoroughness of the application enables the organization to practice proper document management, which has resulted in enhanced internal protection of sensitive (client) information.

The application is also accelerating compliance with the GDPR regulations since it enables stakeholders to search all documents where a specific client is mentioned, including electronic mailboxes. Stibbe realizes that successfully complying with the GDPR requirements begins with finding and understanding the data held by the organization.

About Stibbe
Stibbe is a leading internationally-oriented commercial law firm in the Benelux, with main offices in Amsterdam, Brussels and Luxembourg; and branch offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, London, and New York. Its clients include local corporations, multinationals, and public authorities and entities. As a full-service law firm, Stibbe’s specialist lawyers handle matters from complex transactions and projects to contested litigation. For more information, please visit www.stibbe.com.

About Sinequa
Sinequa is an independent software vendor providing a cognitive search and analytics platform for Global 2000 companies and government agencies. Combining search with advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning algorithms, the solution extracts insight from both structured and unstructured data for users in their work context. Sinequa has been recognized as a leader in both the Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines and other analysts’ reports. Sinequa develops its expertise and its business around the world with a broad network of technology and business partners. For more information, www.sinequa.com.

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