DoublePorts News Alert Engine Delivers Timely News to the Legal Community

News Alerting Service Transforms Attorneys into Trusted Legal Advisors

Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 23, 2003 --DoublePort Inc, a wireless telecom development company, today announced KnowledgePort Legal, an extension of its popular news alert engine specifically designed to accommodate the legal community. The new product offering enables individual attorneys within a legal firm to individually select and receive business news, local court rulings and Supreme Court rulings that are of particular interest to them. The news alerts are then delivered via email or pager within minutes of that news hitting the wire.

Armed with the KnowledgePort Legal news alerts, each attorney becomes the first to know" regarding news that effect his clients business, competition and operational climate. The service eliminates the need for a legal firm to research and distribute news internally because each attorney receives the precise news he/she is interested in within minutes of the news being generated off the news wires.    
    
KnowledgePort Legal news alerts provides our firm with a strategic advantage" says Susan Finneran, Chairman of the Mass Bar Association Business Council and Partner at Finneran and Nicholson PC, a Boston area legal firm. We no longer have to sort through a flood of new sources to find what interests us because KnowledgePort picks the news off the wire that we are interested in."

Each individual attorney within a firm may select specific types of KnowledgePort Legal news alerts that are of particular interest to his/her practice and clientele. When your pager goes off or when you receive an email from us, you know its something relevant that you should read" says Glenn Smith, Managing Director for DoublePort. With KnowledgePort Legal, you receive information about your client, its competition or its changing business climate within minutes of the news hitting the wire. Imagine calling your client with news about his competition that he is unaware of. That kind of knowledge is power."

Smith says that DoublePort is planning on growing the KnowledgePort Legal offering beyond business and legal rulings. As we receive feedback and suggestions from our early adopters, we intend to further grow the offering to make it the ultimate news source for the legal community. If the information is available and relevant, well get it to you, where you want it and when you want it."

About DoublePort
Founded in 2000, DoublePort is a telecommunications development and consulting company. It is a privately held corporation with offices in the United States and Canada. For more information, contact Glenn Smith toll free at 888-527-9009 or email gsmith@doubleport.com. For more information on KnowledgePort Legal, please visit our web-site www.knowledgeport.biz