1. Building Intranet Essentials Affordably with SharePoint

3. Allows you to distribute management of your Intranet to the content owners

4. Content can be targeted based on users, practice groups, office location, etc.

6. SharePoint Best Practices

8. New matter intake

9. Dashboards (Client/Attorney/Matter)

10. Financial reporting

11. Expertise Database (internal/external)

12. New hire onboarding

13. Invest in up-front planning

14. Survey stakeholders from different practice groups

15. Content must be timely and relevant

16. Brand your Portal

17. Consider third-party tools for cost-effectiveness

20. Application Launch

21. Firm Directory

22. Experts Directory

23. Form Library (consolidate PDFs)

24. Contact Management (Firm Rolodex)

25. Practice Group Sites (Announcements, Blog, Links, Documents)

26. IT Site (FAQs, Help Desk Requests, Links)

27. Calendars

28. Summer Associate Site (Bios, event schedule)

29. Simple Attorney Dashboard (MySite)

31. Form Library (PDFs and online forms)

32. Integration using Business Data Catalog

33. InfoPath Forms with Workflow

34. New matter intake

35. Conflict checks

36. Employee Onboarding

37. Expense Reports

38. Matter Dashboards with BDC data

41. Integrate with document management, time and billing, HR systems

42. Connect attorney and matter dashboards

43. Develop secure client extranets

44. Streamline business processes

45. Replace point solutions

46. Replace Excel as database

47. Replace legacy Access databases

49. MasterThemes.net

50. Bamboo Solutions

51. CodePlex (for developers)

52. Extranet Collaboration Manager (SharePointSolutions.com)

53. Other Additions

54. Handshake Software

55. XMLaw

56. Webparts from your vendors, e.g., iManage

57. Enterprise Search

59. Only runs on 64 bit - both SharePoint, and SQL and Win Server 2008

60. Upgrade browsers to IE 7

61. Install Service Pack 2 and run upgrade checker tool

62. Version to version upgrades: If you are on 2003, consider an upgrade to 2007 now