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JUDI FLOURNOY LOEB & LOEB LLP SharePoint as a DMS: Heresy or Obvious Orthodoxy? I ’ve long held the opinion that technology in place in law firms is far more complex than that of the average Fortune 500 Company. We use unique applications developed over several decades, all for managing complex legal documents — from creation, profiling, versioning, storage, repurposing and final disposition under our records retention policies. And I now believe that SharePoint is poised to change my long-held opinion. 32 Microsoft ILTA White Paper In the early 1990s, local area networks were embraced by law firms, eliminating what was fondly known as “sneaker net” or copying/moving a document via floppy disk (you remember those, don’t you?) from one computer to another. Document management systems (DMS) were introduced to law firms in the early to mid-1990s as a tool to manage the growing collection of documents, bringing much needed organization and controls for storage,