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Datacert to Co-Host Online Seminar on Strategic Thinking for Corporate Legal and IP

Industry leaders discuss strategies for reducing costs, conducting value-based sourcing, and enforcing guideline compliance

HOUSTON, June 8, 2009 - Datacert, Inc., the leading global provider of legal operations management solutions, will co-host a free online seminar on June 17 with Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, and Datacert client, Intellectual Ventures, an invention capital company, currently ranked among the top 50 patent filers worldwide, with thousands of patents filed each year.

The current economic downturn has increasingly placed greater emphasis on corporate legal and IP departments’ search for new opportunities to reduce costs and maximize the value received from their outside counsel and vendors. In this seminar, sponsored by Law.com, industry experts will discuss best practices for cost containment, law firm compliance, and strategic decision making in corporate legal and IP departments.

In-house counsel, legal executives, and legal and IP department managers should attend this seminar to learn best practices for strategic legal and IP department management from their colleagues. Featured speakers will include the following representatives from Datacert, Huron, and Intellectual Ventures:

• Guy Ellis, Director of Patent Operations, Intellectual Ventures
• Domenic Leo, SVP, IP Business Development, Datacert, Inc.
• Adam Jaffe, Director, Huron Consulting Group

The online seminar will be June 17, 2 p.m. EST. To learn more and to register for this free seminar, visit www.law.com/iplegalwebinar.

About Datacert, Inc.

Datacert is the leading global provider of software and services for the legal industry. Offerings include its technology platform, Passport, and legal and IP spend and matter management software and services. Clients look to Datacert solutions to strategically manage their departments, reduce legal costs, and optimize operational efficiencies. Datacert has law firm, vendor, and agent connections in more than 150 countries and its customers include 71 Fortune^® 500 corporations, 53 Global Fortune^® 500 corporations, and 100% of the AmLaw 200. Visit www.datacert.com for more information and follow us on Twitter for real-time updates http://twitter.com/Datacert.
 

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, comply with complex regulations, resolve disputes, recover from distress, leverage technology, and stimulate growth. The company teams with its clients to deliver sustainable and measurable results. Huron provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including leading academic institutions, healthcare organizations, Fortune 500 companies, medium-sized businesses, and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.

About Intellectual Ventures

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Intellectual Ventures stimulates new invention opportunities by supplying capital, expertise, and business models to the global intellectual property market. Intellectual Ventures has more than 20,000 invention assets under management and works on a global scale and across more than 30 technology areas including: hardware, software, consumer electronics, digital imaging, medical devices and energy. Intellectual Ventures has offices worldwide, including in Silicon Valley, Austin, Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, Seoul, and Bangalore. For more information, see www.intellectualventures.com.