On the whole, and looking at a technical level, I do tend to agree with Chris Lee - there will come a time when knowledge of 'what lies behind the curtain' in Sharepoint 2007 a.k.a. MOSS will become more widespread, and the understanding of how to use customisations to address the gaps in Sharepoint for legal DM will allow more and more of the most technically astute folks to address these issues. However we are seeing that 'Sharepoint DM' has a large appeal to law firms who are not 'magic circle', 'chasing pack' or 'regional giants' and do not carry the kind of technical expertise in house to address these issues. In the same way that law firms (of all sizes) have shied away from writing and maintaining their own unique custom web parts for information retrieval and consolidation into Sharepoint, then we will see that they will want a solution to Sharepoint Legal DM without paying internal IT staff or others to re-design the wheel when they can already buy a ready made bicycle. And the reason that firms want a bicycle rather than a wheel is that they want to get somewhere and address real needs in order to deliver real benefits. The main issues we have faced in the past are the consolidation of diverse document sources into one collaborative space where functionality is not restricted to just working with documents. Sharepoint obviously adds huge benefit to non-DM collaborative working, but without large and expensive customisation and duplication it ignores the large amount of DM assets and knowledge already in place in existing document libraries and also the existing hierarchical metadata within organisations. Some of the real issues that things like Handshake can already address include: 1 - Consolidation of document sources. Combination of document libraries from existing DM systems and geographically and logically seperate Sharepoint libraries into one collaboration environment within Sharepoint. This tackles the need to combine existing DM and Knowledge assets with work-in-progress collaboration documents; ideal for deal rooms and extranets. And you get all the Sharepoint non-document collaboration features as well. 2 - Creation of logical library structures and security layers by re-purposing existing data (something Handshake has always been good at). At present Sharepoint document libraries have no logical layers; Handshake brings logical library layers to Sharepoint from existing data in law firms other systems (PMS, CRM etc) as well as applying appropriate security based on such metadata. For example a Sharepoint library may be created at matter level, but this approach allows logical grouping at client level (or the other, or any, way around) with appropriate security, but without having to create a new 'physical' Sharepoint library or having to create new security groupings to cope with things like ethical walls. We all know these things are technically possible. After all 'the boys in Tally' have done it. But I'm not sure law firms will wait, and pay, for their staff to chisel away at a block of stone to make a wheel when the firm next door is cycling down the road with the client on the handlebars.