HOUSTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridgeway Software, the leading provider of technology solutions for corporate and government legal departments, today announced it will lead a panel session at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)'s 2009 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. at the Boston Hynes Convention Center. Along with participants from Rockwell Automation, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, NEC Corporation of America and T-Mobile USA, Bridgeway will explore how budget cuts, workforce reductions and increased litigation make it more important than ever to leverage technology to help put in-house counsel in control throughout entire legal process.

The Bridgeway Panel Session entitled "Maximize Your Own Mojo! How to tap into the Power You Already Have during Tough Times," will share with participants how to optimize existing resources through process improvement, system design and effective training. It will also outline key strategies that will take current matter management, entity management and eDiscovery technology into survival mode, and harness powerful metrics to demonstrate the value of the legal department when everything is on the line.

"We look forward to showcasing some of our clients' valuable, real world experiences from their legal departments," said Blane Erwin, Bridgeway Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. "These leading companies represent a cross section of industries from oil and gas to electronics to manufacturing and will provide very useful insight to how to overcome some of the challenges we are all facing in this economy."

Bridgeway Panel Faculty

Blane Erwin, Bridgeway Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, will be the panel moderator. Erwin will be joined by four Bridgeway clients:

    --  Douglas Hagerman, Senior Vice President, General Counsel &
        Secretary, Rockwell Automation
    --  Jeffrey Kaplan, Deputy General Counsel, Chevron Phillips Chemical
        Company LP
    --  Gerald Kenney, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary,
        NEC Corporation of America
    --  Dan Williams, Senior Corporate Counsel, T-Mobile USA, Inc.

Bridgeway Delivers the Solutions that Put Clients in Control

For more than 20 years, Bridgeway has delivered the solutions that make it easy for clients to practice more law. Bridgeway's solutions put its clients in control, enabling clients to easily manage enterprise- wide legal data, as a part of normal legal business operations. More than 400 corporate and government clients have achieved operational success in the management of their eDiscovery, Matter Management, E-billing, and Corporate Governance processes utilizing Bridgeway's legal enterprise-wide management solutions.

Bridgeway's solutions include:

    --  The first end-to-end in-house eDiscovery solution
    --  An integrated eDiscovery dashboard
    --  An integrated legal hold solution
    --  A comprehensive and flexible matter management suite
    --  An integrated e-billing solution for legal spend management
    --  A corporate governance solution designed by corporate secretaries

"Our clients need to spend the bulk of their time practicing law, to do this they need control over data that is currently in disparate systems. Bridgeway gives them that control through the effective management of, and visibility into their enterprise-wide data," Erwin said. "We say that our solutions put you in Control' because they accomplish exactly what our clients are looking for in a legal technology solution- management of all legal data as an integrated part of a client's standard processes and legal operations."

About ACC's Annual Meeting

The ACC Annual Meeting with be held in Boston, Massachusetts from October 18 - 21, 2009. ACC's Annul Meeting is the largest in-house counsel event of its kind, and will have members in attendance from the Fortune 100. The theme of the 2009 ACC Annual Meeting is "Don't Just Survive. Thrive!" More information about ACC's 2009 Annual meeting is available at http://am.acc.com/index.cfm.

About Bridgeway

Bridgeway is dedicated to providing software solutions and professional services to implement best practices for the offices of the general counsel and corporate secretary. Leading corporations and government agencies optimize productivity and reduce risk with Bridgeway's integrated technology approach for complete legal enterprise management. Bridgeway implements systems in the areas of electronic discovery, matter and case management, electronic invoicing, cost management, corporate governance, contract management, litigation risk assessment and entity management. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Houston, Texas with representative offices in Philadelphia and Toronto. More information about Bridgeway eDiscovery, Bridgeway Legal Hold, eCounsel(R), LawManager(R), Smart Invoice, Corridor(TM), Secretariat(R), and Bridgeway Diligent Boardbooks(TM) is available at www.bridge-way.com or by calling 888-272-4699.

Media Contact: Brian Johnson 713-599-8365 Brian.Johnson@bridge-way.com

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