Alpharetta, GA — September 12, 2008—Handshake Software, Inc., the global leader in Microsoft Office® 2007 and SharePoint Server® 2007 integration and innovation, today announced that its customer, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P, an international law firm currently in its 119th year, is a winner of CIO magazine's 2008 CIO 100 Award. The CIO 100 Awards honor 100 organizations and the people within them that are using information technology in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers.

Shook Hardy & Bacon is recognized for its redesigned corporate portal, CityLink, supporting an integrated, collaborative work environment. The portal provides tools, including shared calendars, RSS newsfeeds, blogs and wikis, along with links to internal websites and client-oriented extranets. The Handshake Software Relationship Framework powers the integration of Microsoft's SharePoint to a variety of corporate data repositories ranging from human resources and accounting information to client records and litigation support databases.

“The most impressive feature of CityLink is the integration of data from multiple sources to provide the legal teams with highly customized information concerning their clients and matters, implementing client/matter centricity,” said Ann Schlomann, Senior IT Project Manager of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. “Web Parts built upon the Handshake Software Relationship Framework provide access to valuable client and matter metadata that reside in multiple databases throughout the firm, associate the metadata with an individual, and dynamically display this personalized information on that person’s home page.”

For more information about the Shook, Hardy & Bacon CIO Award, visit the CIO 100 site here.

For more information about Handshake Software at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, visit here.

About Shook, Hardy & Bacon

Shook, Hardy & Bacon, with more than 500 attorneys in nine major cities in the United States, London and Geneva, is one of the nation’s premier international law firms and represents many of the world’s largest corporations in their most complex litigation matters. Established in 1889, SHB has built substantial practices in areas including products liability, intellectual property, environmental and toxic tort litigation, employment litigation, commercial litigation, corporate compliance, and public policy.

For more information about Shook, Hardy & Bacon, visit www.shb.com

About Handshake Software, Inc.

Handshake Software, Inc. is the leading provider of integration and innovation products for Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Server. The company's solutions help businesses leverage existing information and increase the return on investment from line of business applications for all types of business requirements through Microsoft’s suite of products.

Handshake Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with operations worldwide.

For more information about Handshake Software, visit www.handshakesoftware.com.

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John Bellegarde

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