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Law Department Desktop Services, LLC ("LDDS"), is in the business of leveling the technology playing field for corporate law departments. We believe it is essentially for leaders of law departments of all sizes to have easy access to proven technology and tools for improving efficiency of operations and managing relationships with preferred outside counsel and suppliers.

Our mission is NOT to sell you a product or service. It is to provide you with reliable long-term business solutions that make sense. Central to our ability to do this is your use of the Law Department Efficiency Desktop (the "Desktop") - a dedicated extranet customized to your law department's needs that connects all of the members of your in-house and outside counsel legal team and centralizes their collective work product at your fingertips.

Through strategic relationships with key LDDS Partners, we provide a turnkey solution that improves your law department's production and operations capabilities. We achieve this by defining your technology requirements and system expectations. We design the functionality of your Desktop to meet your needs. Next, we implement your Desktop in a timely manner to minimize business interruption. And, thereafter, we help you administer and run your Desktop, so that you achieve the higher efficiency in legal services delivery and cost reducing results you want. We serve as your legal team's silent efficiency partner.

Importantly, we recognize the time, budget and resource constraints under which you operate. For this reason, we place the cost of our Desktop services where they should be - on the law firms that you hire to provide legal services to your corporate clients. We charge your law firms a modest access fee to utilize your law department's extranet. Essentially, through this win-win-win arrangement, you benefit from our Desktop services without cost.

About Our Business Partner 17a-4, LLC

Founded in 2001, 17a-4 has assisted hundreds of institutions to effectively and efficiently mitigate their regulatory and litigation risk associated with e-messaging, collaboration and social networking content. The company's unique strength is combining an extensive knowledge of the existing and proposed regulations with our ability to implement best-practice solutions for electronic records retention.

The company is named after Rule 17a-4 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, which was the first regulation to explicitly outline the technical requirements for mail retention and management. Based on marked successes supporting SEC-regulated institutions, 17a-4 has extended its expertise to assisting other financial institutions and public corporations.

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