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Workstorm, a leading provider of secure collaboration solutions, today announced it has closed its Series A round, valuing the company at $200 million. The company was advised by Sidley Austin LLP, and funding participants include Author Capital Partners and Chicago-based high-net-worth investors. The funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand its customer base, and support the growth of its sales and engineering teams.

Continuity Global Solutions found a long-term way to handle confidential team collaboration through Workstorm's platform. The operational shift to remote work pushed security and risk management services provider Continuity Global Solutions to find a new go-to resource that could meet its need for privacy and flexibility. The bulk of Continuity’s work is in support of United States embassy security around the world, says Brian Davidenko, vice president, technical services. That includes such locations as Uganda, Mozambique, Pakistan, and Kosovo, says Chairman John DeBlasio. “Much of the information we have is sensitive.” After the pandemic struck and operations became increasingly remote...

When the coronavirus pandemic transitioned a huge percentage of America's workforce to a long-term work-from-home schedule, businesses needed to rethink their tools to allow employees to communicate remotely while keeping company information safe. While Slack and Microsoft Teams have both surged in popularity during the crisis, neither offer end-to-end encryption, the highest standard of data protection. That's where Workstorm comes in: The 5-year-old workplace collaboration and videoconferencing platform boasts end-to-end encryption products and other additional privacy features...

As the current crisis forces more professional services companies to adapt to remote work, leading enterprise security and consulting firm Torres AES is the latest company to partner with Workstorm to manage its unique, highly sensitive remote work needs. Torres, a firm of 3,500 professionals with remote offices across 13 locations, provides logistics, security and training services to government and business clients, including both the U.S. Departments of State and Defense and the U.S. Agency for...

Workstorm today announced the upcoming release of new project management features, including task and time tracking. The newly integrated suite of features is available for demonstration during the ILTACON 2019 annual conference, hosted by the International Legal Technology Association, August 18-22 in Orlando, FL. Commercial availability of the new suite of features is scheduled for...

Workstorm today announced the appointment of four new Directors to its Advisory Board: Catherine Zinn, Chief Client Officer, Orrick; Jon Bunge, Managing Partner, Quinn Emanuel; Rohan Phillips, former Chief Technology Architect at McDonald’s Corporation; and Jenny Scanlon, former President and CEO, USG Corporation. The new appointees join existing Directors of the Advisory Board, including Lee Miller, former Global Chair, DLA Piper and Mark Williams, former President and CEO, Kroll Ontrack...

Workstorm, provider of enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology, today announced its recognition by The National Law Journal as a 2019 Emerging Legal Technology leader. Workstorm was honored for its innovative development of collaboration technology...

Workstorm, provider of enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology, today announced expanded platform functionalities that align with the company’s vision for unparalleled connectedness of a single collaboration and communication platform for the legal and professional services industries. Demonstration of Workstorm’s expanded functionality, including calendar integrations...

Stearns deepens company leadership and brings expertise and insight on collaboration technology platform to law firms and corporate legal counsel. Workstorm, provider of enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology, today announced Brian Stearns has joined the company as chief commercial officer. In his new role...

Solve complex problems, forecast legal spend, manage risk and partner with a diverse set of business stakeholders—these are just a few of the vast demands placed on in-house legal. In addition, corporate legal departments are facing new disruptions, such as changes to law firm practice models and advancements in technology. What does this mean for in-house attorneys and...

Workstorm, provider of enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology, today announced expansion of its enterprise collaboration platform to serve corporate legal departments. The Workstorm platform is designed to meet the unique needs of the legal industry, beginning with law firms earlier this year and now expanding into corporate legal departments...

A company that earlier this year launched a platform to provide law firms with enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology is today announcing its expansion of that technology to service corporate legal departments. When it launched its platform last June, Workstorm initially focused on providing its technology to law firms...

Workplaces are looking a little different these days. From where work is done to how ideas are discussed and who is making the decisions, a majority of employees are demanding change. Consider these statistics: 43% of employed Americans spend at least some time...

Collaboration with colleagues and clients often means straddling multiple platforms and juggling different tools. You’re likely using some general business collaboration apps for project management, file sharing and team messaging, right along with case or practice management software and practice-specific software for generating work...

Each day you manage cases, strategize with colleagues, communicate with clients, edit documents, log hours and update calendars. But time is your most valuable asset. How many hours a day do you spend sending email? Making phone calls? Searching for documents? How many times a day do you...

Workstorm, provider of enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology, today announced an integration partnership with iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work. The new integration brings users working within the Workstorm enterprise collaboration platform seamless access to iManage Work 10, the leading document and email management application for today’s modern professionals. As a sponsor of ILTACON 2018, Workstorm is demonstrating its...

Workstorm, provider of enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology, today announced the seamless integration of email into the company’s enterprise collaboration platform. Built into the platform with single sign-on functionality, the Workstorm email client enables users to securely send and receive emails alongside messages, files, videoconference calls and more, all within the same dashboard, enabling increased user efficiency and productivity. The Workstorm email client supports Microsoft Outlook in the current instance, with additional provider integrations on the horizon...

Shifting workforce dynamics, along with evolving communication methods, are giving rise to a completely new category of technology designed to boost employee productivity. Organizations in other industries have already experienced the benefits of enterprise collaboration, and now this technology is making its way to the legal sector. The rise of enterprise collaboration is redefining the modern law firm and how law practices will think about communication in the future...

Workstorm, provider of enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology, today announced the launch of its enterprise collaboration platform customized to meet the unique needs of the legal industry. As part of the announcement, the company revealed a limited beta program for small and midsize law firms, as well as a legal collaboration community limited to 15 firms in the Am Law 200. These groups will partner with Workstorm to shape the future of enterprise collaboration in the legal industry...

Businessman Raj Fernando started trading firm Chopper Trading in 2002 and sold it in 2015, learning a lot about regulated markets technology systems in the process. “Basically everything we used internally, we built,” he says today. So when looking for a new project following the sale, those technology systems seemed like a natural starting place. In particular, he looked at the collaboration system that had allowed the firm to work more efficiently: “We had lots of ideas around that, and I thought we could build these enterprise systems in regulated industries such as the financial industry and the legal industry.” The result is Workstorm, a collaboration platform that is designed to let members of a law firm communicate securely, efficiently...

“Our leadership and development teams have decades of experience in the enterprise sector developing products that serve front- and back-office teams and understand the critical importance of intellectual property protection, data security, compliance and confidentiality. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of ideas, protect your data and improve your current workflow.” Workstorm provides enterprise customers with a customizable platform that integrates with...