CentOS - Jan 2009 - OFF Topic - Looking for web based file management application for law firm & clients

Hi All:

I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients 
the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for 
the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
(authentication & SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this 
matter?

Thanks,

Ed

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:45:25 -0800
Ed Morrison wrote:
> I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients 
> the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
> would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for 
> the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
> (authentication & SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
> logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this 
> matter?
If you find something really clever to do this, I would be very interested
in what it is.  I was just asked (yesterday afternoon) about setting up
something similar to that for a government office.

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on 1-29-2009 8:45 AM Ed Morrison spake the following:
> Hi All:
> 
> I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients 
> the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
> would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for 
> the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
> (authentication & SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
> logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this 
> matter?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed
I saw an article recently about the Swiss Federal courts using Alfresco for
something like this.

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On 29-Jan-09, at 10:09 AM, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 1-29-2009 8:45 AM Ed Morrison spake the following:
>> Hi All:
>>
>> I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's
clients
>> the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This
>> would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process  
>> for
>> the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure
>> (authentication & SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before
>> logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on  
>> this
>> matter?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed
> I saw an article recently about the Swiss Federal courts using  
> Alfresco for
> something like this.
>
Knowledge Tree was the other i was looking at.

d

Ed Morrison wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients 
> the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
> would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for 
> the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
> (authentication & SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
> logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this 
> matter?
I was also looking for something like this. You can find a whole load of 
choices here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system

A lot of the open source ones are built on Java like the two mentioned 
in this thread Afresco and KnowledgeTree.

One that is not listed but is possibly less of a hassle to setup and 
maybe fit the law firm's needs is Epiware:

http://www.epiware.com
http://www.linux.com/feature/146307
http://sourceforge.net/projects/epiware/

No java involved and you get an online demo to look at first too.

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 1-29-2009 8:45 AM Ed Morrison spake the following:
>   
>> Hi All:
>>
>> I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's
clients
>> the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
>> would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for
>> the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
>> (authentication & SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
>> logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this
>> matter?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed
>>     
> I saw an article recently about the Swiss Federal courts using Alfresco for
> something like this.
>
>   
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Thanks, I will look into it.

Ed

dnk wrote:
> On 6-Feb-09, at 7:57 AM, Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
>>> A lot of the open source ones are built on Java like the two  
>>> mentioned
>>> in this thread Afresco and KnowledgeTree.
> 
> 
> Actually KT is PHP based. Basic LAMP stack. Apparently pretty easy to  
> setup.
> d
> 
My bad. I actually never downloaded KT...I balked at the request for a 
whole lot of stuff to download their community edition. I must have 
mixed it up with openkm which is java based.