In May, the Association of Corporate Counsel named several “Value Champions”—legal departments that, through legal operations efforts, including improved use of technology, have found a way to fulfill the mandate facing many in-house lawyers today: Do more with less.

One of this year's winners was Ricoh USA. The ACC honored the imaging, printing, copying and document management company for its partnership with outside counsel Reed Smith. The two developed a shared software tool to track employment litigation matters and create a “knowledge center” accessible by in-house employment lawyers and select employees from Ricoh's human resources and risk management departments.

Corporate Counsel recently spoke with Ricoh senior paralegal Kimberly Corbin and vice president and general counsel of the employment law group Jami Segota about the software tool, which is colloquially called “ouRSite.” The following conversation has been edited for clarity and length.