Traditional approaches that rely on fee earners and support staff to enforce confidentiality on a per application basis rely heavily on administrative staff, and are no longer sufficient to satisfy clients’ needs and regulatory requirements.

Increasingly, there are many real-life examples of ineffective ethical walls (or lack thereof) and the resulting fines and disqualifications law firms are regularly faced with.  A recent example is of this is Line Trust Corp. Ltd, et al. v. David Lichtenstein, et al, heard before the Supreme Court of the State of New York.  In this case, a lawyer made a lateral move and brought his client with him, which resulted in a firm representing adverse parties.  The firm’s IT department audit revealed document access by an unauthorized party and caused a judge to conclude that an ethical wall either did not exist or if it did, it was ineffective.

At the root of these issues is the inability of an ad-hoc, home-grown system to automatically monitor, identify and resolve ethical wall conflicts.  Today’s regulation-heavy law firm environment requires a system where the firm can manage automatic creation of walls, monitoring of all systems to ensure proper wall enforcement, and ensuring ethical walls extend and encompass all key systems and repositories where sensitive information is stored.

What is needed is an enterprise ethical walls system designed for law firms to manage confidentiality, protect sensitive information and reduce risk exposure by establishing, monitoring and updating security from a single point of entry for all mission-critical firm systems and content, in real-time.

An enterprise ethical walls system automates the creation and monitoring of all ethical walls across all information repositories from a single control center, providing the firm with the ability to defend its position, along with a comprehensive audit trail to demonstrate how and when information was secured, and all attempts to access this information by authorized and unauthorized parties and any actions taken. It streamlines the process of wall creation and monitors all access to ensure compliance throughout the lifecycle of a wall.

In addition, a commercial system is maintained and functionality is further enhanced to meet the ever changing needs of the market. This ensures firms will never fall behind in terms of functionality and will continue to easily comply with ethical wall requests based on ethical and regulatory requirements.

For more information about ethical walls and Frayman Group’s industry-leading ethical walls system Compliguard Protect, see here. Compliguard Protect 6 delivers many industry-firsts and is the most comprehensive confidentiality management application at an affordable price point.

New York — (December 8, 2011) – Frayman Group (www.fraymangroup.com), a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, today announced further strengthening of its executive team with the appointment of Ms. Meg Block as Senior Vice President of Risk Management Consulting.  Ms. Block will be joining Frayman Group in January 2012.

With over twenty-five years of experience consulting to the legal community, Ms. Block specializes in business process reviews and the design of enterprise-wide risk management programs. Ms. Block has long been recognized as a thought leader in the areas of new business intake and conflicts of interest, and speaks and writes frequently on these topics.

For the past eighteen years, Ms. Block has been a Managing Director with HBR Consulting LLC, previously known as Baker Robbins & Company and Hildebrandt Baker Robbins.

Ms. Block will be heading up Frayman Group’s risk management practice and continue to deliver value to the legal community by providing in-depth risk management process reviews and tailored system designs.  Ms. Block will also be forming a consortium of risk management leaders in the legal industry to explore the dynamic challenges of managing information securely and effectively.

“Meg is a great addition to our team as she brings a tremendous amount of business intake, conflicts and risk domain expertise and best practices,” said Yuri Frayman, President & CEO at Frayman Group. “We are looking forward to extending our consulting practice under Meg’s guidance, and leveraging her deep domain expertise to further enrich our risk management platform.”

“I am very excited to join Frayman Group,” said Meg Block. “The combination of my expertise and Frayman’s business intake workflow, conflicts and confidentiality management solutions will set the standard for how to define and deliver to a law firm’s risk management requirements, maximizing its return on investment.”

About Frayman Group

Frayman Group, a leading provider of software and services for law firms, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to help customers automate business processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. The company is headquartered in New York City.  For more information, visit www.fraymangroup.com.

Press Contact:

Alp Hug
The Frayman Group
+1 (718) 648-7700
press@fraymangroup.com

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New York City — (December 6, 2011) – Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, today announced Compliguard Protect 6, the legal industry’s most comprehensive information barriers, ethical walls and confidentiality management system.  Compliguard Protect 6 features a complete overhaul, new features and functionality, and overall improvement across of all key functions relevant for an enterprise-class confidentiality management application.

“With Compliguard Protect 6, we are delivering a product to market all other confidentiality management solutions will be measured against,” said Mohit Thawani, SVP Products at Frayman Group.

“Compliguard Protect 6 is the result of direct consultation with our global install base of confidentiality management customers, encompassing mid-side firms as well as some of the largest multi-nationals,” added Thawani.  “We have improved every aspect of the application and delivered new functionality and features not available in any other confidentiality management application in the market.”

Compliguard Protect 6 features advanced new functionality and enhancements in all aspects of the application, many of which are industry-firsts, including:

Predictive Clash Resolution Engine:

• Automatic Clash Resolution: New, redesigned engine features industry’s most sophisticated algorithms to proactively identify multi-wall clashes and recommend course of action to resolve them, eliminating any possible conflicts.
• Enterprise-class Scalability: Significantly improved scalability, tested with 25 million documents per library in both centralized and distributed deployment scenarios.
• Entirely Based on Business Rules: Executes business rules defined during the wall creation process, nothing hardcoded.
• Microsoft Technology Stack: Entirely written in .NET.

Data-In-Motion Confidentiality Management:

• Compliguard Protect 6 features advanced integration with Microsoft Exchange, extending wall security seamlessly to email messages.
• System automatically detects potential wall breaches based on recipients of an email and warns the email author of potential conflict and preventing accidental email exchanges between opposing sides of a wall.
• Features fully customizable thresholds, including the ability to specify email volume, size and number of attachments.

Standard Integration Layer and Plug-ins:

• All integrations are now standard plug-ins across all clients, requiring no custom scripting for any client. Any enhancements and upgrades to plug-ins can be utilized across all Compliguard Protect clients.
• Standard integration plug-ins are available for Autonomy iManage, OpenText eDOCS DM, OpenText eDOCS DOCS Open, NetDocuments, LegalKEY Conflicts Management, LegalKEY Records Management, Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS) 2007-2010, Elite 3E, Elite Enterprise, Carpe Diem, DTE, Aderant Expert, Interaction CRM, Accutrac and network file shares.

Enhanced Security Model:

• Wall Membership Delegation: Wall administrators can now delegate user management to lawyers and secretaries, allowing them to directly control wall membership.  The application ensures there is no conflict for anyone requested to be added to a side/wall.  If there is a conflict, the system rejects the addition and alerts the designated personnel as per the wall definition.
• Dynamic Groups: Compliguard Protect 6 allows wall administrators to create a dynamic group, based on criteria such as “all partners in litigation”.  The system then queries the firm’s HR system and dynamically updates group membership.  Security can then be applied for the dynamic group and as the membership updates, the wall self-maintains membership.
• Granular Security: Users can now have different levels of security, including no-access, read-only, modify, create, etc. Users can also have different levels of security against different systems, e.g. read-only on network file share, read-write on DM system, and no-access on CRM system.

Enhanced Notification System Featuring Natural Language Acknowledgement Support:

• Fully configurable, fully customizable notification and acknowledgement templates, now even easier to create, customize and maintain.
• Full support for both event-driven and scheduled notifications.
• Application now understands natural language acknowledgements. Users can simply reply to the notification email from their desktop email client, iPhone, BlackBerry, or any other device and type in plain English a phrase such as “I accept” or “I reject” or “I acknowledge” and the system automatically interprets the response.

New Dashboard and Improved User Experience:

• Completely redesigned dashboard now more functional, provides single-click access to more functions, features more statistical data to aid wall administrators.
• Additional UI enhancements to new-wall-creation-wizard further simplifies what is already considered the best user experience in the market for an ethical walls system.

Reporting, Logging and Auditing:

• Additional report templates provide more flexible reporting functionality out-of-the-box.
• Advanced Excel-exporting options allow administrators to easily export data to Excel for further analysis.
• More comprehensive logging options for specific matter types such as price-sensitive matters, facilitating more extensive audit capabilities.
• Enhanced filtering functionality to analyze log files with great ease.

Extended Published APIs:

• Authoritative Security Clearance: Compliguard Protect 6 supports API calls from third party applications to provide “authoritative security clearance”. Law firm applications can now programmatically check and see if they should grant access to a user requesting access to data. 
• Integration with Business Intake Workflows: Following the success of seamless integration with Frayman Group’s new business intake (NBI) platform Compliguard Flow2, Compliguard Protect 6 now supports API calls from third party NBI applications based on Metastorm, K2 and others, allowing these applications to directly provide data to the confidentiality management system, enabling automatic establishment of ethical walls based on data collected during the NBI process. 
• Published APIs: All API calls are fully documented, published and feature sample code.

Compliguard Protect 6 is built on the latest Microsoft technology, requiring nothing but a web browser on the client desktop to operate. The product is expected to be generally available in Q1 2012.

About Frayman Group

Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to help customers automate business processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. The company is headquartered in New York City.  For more information, visit fraymangroup.com, follow Frayman Group on Twitter and Facebook.

Press Contact:
Alp Hug
The Frayman Group
+1 718.648.7700
press@fraymangroup.com

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New York City — (Dec 5th, 2011) – Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, today announced that Rutan & Tucker LLP (“Rutan & Tucker”) has selected Compliguard Protect. Compliguard Protect, designed specifically for law firms of all sizes, is an information governance, confidentiality management and activity monitoring system, that proactively secures and protects information across the firm’s information repositories and network file shares.

Established 1906, Rutan & Tucker has enjoyed a leading role in shaping Orange County and California business and communities, today standing as the largest full-service business law firm based in Orange County, with 160 attorneys combined in Orange County and Palo Alto.

Rutan & Tucker will be leveraging Compliguard Protect to secure sensitive content in business-critical systems including iManage Worksite, iRM, DTE Axiom, Aderant, as well as content stored on network file shares.

“Compliguard Protect was better value for our firm compared to all other products we looked at, as it is a full-featured enterprise ethical walls application at a very attractive price point,” said Dave Crunkleton, Director of IT at Rutan & Tucker. “Our team loved the simplicity of the user interface, the extensibility of the application and its .NET-based architecture.”

“Compliguard Protect’s clean design, rich feature set and ease of implementation, together with our attractive pricing at a fraction of other confidentiality management solutions in the market is continuing to win us customers in the mid-market,” said Kandace Donovan, SVP and General Manager North America at Frayman Group.

Compliguard Protect helps firms reduce risk exposure and guard information recognized as sensitive for ethical, privacy or confidentiality reasons by establishing, maintaining, monitoring and updating information barriers to automatically prevent unauthorized or unintended access. Compliguard Protect was built on a Service Oriented Architecture with all functionality accessible through Web Services APIs for easy, out-of-the-box integration with leading document management, records management, time and billing and email systems.

Compliguard Protect is part of Frayman Group’s end-to-end risk management platform, which includes:

• Compliguard Flow2 – legal industry’s fastest design-to-production new business workflow application
• Compliguard Analyze – second generation conflicts management application designed to deliver smart automation, mobility and accountability to the mission-critical conflicts management process
• Compliguard Protect – information governance, ethical walls, confidentiality management and unusual activity monitoring application
• Compliguard Hold – non-intrusive legal hold process management for law firms

The Compliguard platform is built on the latest Microsoft technology, requiring nothing but a web browser on the client desktop to operate.

About Frayman Group

Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to help customers automate business processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. The company is headquartered in New York City.  For more information, visit fraymangroup.com, follow Frayman Group on Twitter and Facebook.

Press Contact:
Alp Hug
The Frayman Group
+1 718.648.7700
press@fraymangroup.com

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London, United Kingdom — (Dec 1^st, 2011) – Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake, risk and compliance software for law firms, today announced that international law firm Pinsent Masons LLP has selected Frayman Group’s Compliguard platform to provide a world-class business intake workflow, information barriers and compliance solution.

Pinsent Masons is a highly ranked full-service commercial firm with over 1700 staff operating across locations in the UK and internationally.  In 2011, the Firm was awarded ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation.

The Firm is embarking upon a project to create a new centralised compliance function to serve the growing needs of the business internationally. Frayman Group’s Compliguard platform will underpin the new operation with its modern, workflow-driven functionality, purpose-built for law firms and ideal for geographically dispersed user communities that need to collaborate with compliance teams on business intake and compliance issues around the clock. The Compliguard platform will be integrated with the Firm’s Aderant Expert PMS, Autonomy iManage and Saleslogix CRM systems.

Additionally, the Information Barriers capabilities of the Compliguard solution will be tightly integrated with the business intake process, greatly speeding up and simplifying the process of barrier creation to satisfy client confidentiality requirements.

“Frayman Group’s software fit, references and domain expertise were compelling,” said Antoinette Jucker, Compliance Partner at Pinsent Masons. “It was very clear to us that Frayman’s overall value proposition and highly responsive team were best placed to meet our firm’s needs.”

“We are delighted to add Pinsent Masons to our community of new UK clients in what has been a terrific growth year for Frayman Group in the UK” said Bryan Roberts, SVP & Managing Director of the United Kingdom at Frayman Group.  “Rapid adoption of the Compliguard platform is proof that Frayman Group is the solution of choice in top law firms in the UK and US for business Intake, compliance and information barriers”.

Compliguard is an end-to-end risk management platform, which includes:

• Compliguard Flow2 – legal industry’s fastest design-to-production new business workflow application
• Compliguard Analyze – second generation conflicts management application designed to deliver smart automation, mobility and accountability to the mission-critical conflicts management process
• Compliguard Protect – information governance, ethical walls, confidentiality management and unusual activity monitoring application
• Compliguard Hold – non-intrusive legal hold process management for law firms

The Compliguard platform is built on the latest Microsoft technology, requiring nothing but a web browser on the client desktop to operate.

Follow Frayman Group on Twitter (@thefraymangroup) and Facebook (facebook.com/thefraymangroup).

About Frayman Group

Frayman Group, a leading provider of software and services for law firms, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to help customers automate business processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. The company is headquartered in New York City.  For more information, visit www.fraymangroup.com.

UK Press Contact:

Bryan Roberts
SVP & Managing Director, UK
The Frayman Group
+44 207.977.1475
press@fraymangroup.com

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New York City — (September 1, 2011) – Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, today announced that Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP (“SHB”) has selected Compliguard Protect, the legal market’s leading .NET based information confidentiality management solution. Compliguard Protect, designed specifically for the legal industry, is an information governance, confidentiality management and activity monitoring system, that proactively secures and protects information across the firm’s information repositories and network file shares.

Established in Kansas City in 1889, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP is an international law firm with a legacy spanning more than a century.  With more than 500 attorneys and 226 research analysts and paraprofessionals, SHB is committed to being the best in the world at providing creative and practical solutions at unsurpassed value.

SHB will be leveraging Compliguard Protect to secure sensitive content in business-critical systems including OpenText eDOCS DM, time entry, LegalKEY Conflicts and Record Management, and network file shares.

“Compliguard Protect’s solid .NET foundation, coupled with our streamlined pricing and our unparalleled ease of implementation is continuing to win us clients for confidentiality management,” said Kandace Donovan, SVP and General Manager North America at Frayman Group.  “We are very pleased to have Shook, Hardy & Bacon join our growing list of Frayman clients.”

Compliguard Protect helps firms reduce risk exposure and guard information recognized as sensitive for ethical, privacy or confidentiality reasons by establishing, maintaining, monitoring and updating information barriers to automatically prevent unauthorized or unintended access. Compliguard Protect was built on a Service Oriented Architecture with all functionality accessible through Web Services APIs for easy, out-of-the-box integration with leading document management, records management, time and billing and email systems.

Compliguard Protect is part of Frayman Group’s end-to-end risk management platform, which includes:

• Compliguard Flow2 – legal industry’s fastest design-to-production new business workflow application
• Compliguard Analyze – second generation conflicts management application designed to deliver smart automation, mobility and accountability to the mission-critical conflicts management process
• Compliguard Protect – information governance, ethical walls, confidentiality management and unusual activity monitoring application
• Compliguard Hold – non-intrusive legal hold process management for law firms

The Compliguard platform is built on the latest Microsoft technology, requiring nothing but a web browser on the client desktop to operate.

About Frayman Group
Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to help customers automate business processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. The company is headquartered in New York City.  For more information, visit fraymangroup.com, follow Frayman Group on Twitter and Facebook.

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Nashville, Tennessee — (August 23, 2011) – Frayman Group (fraymangroup.com), a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, today announced at the ILTA 2011 Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, that Inc. Magazine ranked Frayman Group No. 271 on its 30^th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest growing private companies. Frayman Group demonstrated three-year sales growth of 1189%.

The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Microsoft, Zappos, Intuit, Jamba Juice, Zipcar, Clif Bar, Vizio, Oracle, and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 500.

“We are honored to join the ranks of such distinguished companies on the Inc. 500,” said Yuri Frayman, President and CEO of Frayman Group.  “This is a great achievement for Frayman Group, and recognition of our success.  It demonstrates the strong market demand for our unique value proposition: an integrated, purpose-built business intake and risk management platform for law firms.”

The 2011 Inc. 500, unveiled in the September issue of Inc., is available on newsstands August 23 to November 15 and on Inc.com.

Inc. 500 Methodology

The 2011 Inc. 500 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2007 to 2010. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007. Additionally, they had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2010. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2007 is $100,000; the minimum for 2010 is $2 million.

About Inc. Magazine

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 710,106, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit Inc. online at www.inc.com.

About Frayman Group

Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to help customers automate business processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. The company is headquartered in New York City.  For more information, visit fraymangroup.com, follow Frayman Group on Twitter and Facebook.

Nashville, Tennessee — (August 22, 2011) – Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, today announced at the ILTA 2011 Conference in Nashville, Tennesse, that Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP (“Fried Frank”) has chosen Compliguard Flow2, the legal industry’s most comprehensive new business intake workflow application.  Fried Frank is switching away from their current workflow and business process management vendor to Frayman Group, so the firm can take advantage of the simplicity and sophistication of the Compliguard Flow2 platform, empowering the firm to create, modify and manage workflows with great ease.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP is a leading international law firm.   From offices strategically located in the world’s principal financial centers, Fried Frank serves as counsel to many of the world’s largest companies, financial institutions and investment firms.

Fried Frank is switching to Compliguard Flow2 to bring agility and flexibility to its new business intake process.  Compliguard Flow2 will be integrated with the firm’s LegalKEY Conflicts, Elite Enterprise, and Autonomy Worksite systems.

“Compliguard Flow2 delivers on all areas we found challenging in our current NBI implementation, providing us with the simplicity we need to create and manage the new business process, while providing sophisticated functionality such as access to the NBI process from smartphones and other mobile devices,” said Steve Lewis, Director of Information Services at Fried Frank.  “Compliguard Flow2 provides our firm with a solid foundation as we improve our new business intake practice infrastructure for the future.”

“With Frayman Group, we get more than just a great product for new business intake,” said Nancy Rine, Director of Library Services at Fried Frank.  “We get to tap into the company’s vast knowledge and expertise in the area of new business intake, helping us improve and streamline our processes.”

“We are very happy to welcome Fried Frank to our growing list of new business intake customers in North America,” said Kandace Donovan, Senior Vice President and General Manager North America at Frayman Group. “We look forward to working with the firm to design and build a modern, agile new business intake process.”

Compliguard Flow2 is part of Frayman Group’s end-to-end risk management platform, which includes:

• Compliguard Flow2 – legal industry’s fastest design-to-production new business workflow application
• Compliguard Analyze – second generation conflicts management application designed to deliver smart automation, mobility and accountability to the mission-critical conflicts management process
• Compliguard Protect – information governance, ethical walls, confidentiality management and unusual activity monitoring application
• Compliguard Hold – non-intrusive legal hold process management for law firms

The Compliguard platform is built on the latest Microsoft technology, requiring nothing but a web browser on the client desktop to operate.

Follow Frayman Group on Twitter (@thefraymangroup) and Facebook.

About Fried Frank

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP is a leading international law firm.   From offices strategically located in the world’s principal financial centers, Fried Frank serves as counsel to many of the world’s largest companies, financial institutions and investment firms. The Firm is recognized for its ability to deploy well-configured, cross-border teams that provide the depth of knowledge, breadth of experience and responsive service that clients require to meet their critical business objectives. More information about Fried Frank can be found at www.friedfrank.com.

About Frayman Group

Frayman Group, a leading provider of software and services for law firms, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to help customers automate business processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. The company is headquartered in New York City.  For more information, visit www.fraymangroup.com.

Press Contact:
Alp Hug
+1 905.266.0321
press@fraymangroup.com

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New York — (Aug 18, 2011) – Frayman Group (fraymangroup.com), a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, today announced further strengthening of its executive management team with the appointment of Mohit Thawani as Senior Vice President, Products. Thawani will lead the company’s product management and R&D teams.

With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Thawani has an extensive background in the enterprise software industry, having held senior management positions as head of product management, business development, marketing, sales, and research & development.

During his long tenure in the professional services industry, Thawani made a significant impact to risk management practices at law firms.  As a co-founder of LegalKEY Technologies, and in various senior management roles at Hummingbird and OpenText, Thawani advised, streamlined and helped implement new business intake, risk management and compliance platforms at some of the largest law firms in the world.

Thawani holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology and is a 2012 candidate for an Executive MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business, specializing in Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

“Thawani brings deep domain expertise in new business intake and risk management practices, coupled with seasoned people management skills,” said Yuri Frayman, President & CEO of Frayman Group.  “With Thawani, we gain a great executive to help guide our R&D and product management teams with the definition and prioritization of product features and functionality while representing the customers’ viewpoint.”

“The timing is right to join Frayman Group as the demand for the company’s new business intake and risk management portfolio is at an all time high,” said Mohit Thawani, Senior Vice President, Products at Frayman Group.  “I look forward to leading the charge for Frayman’s product management and R&D teams as we scale to meet the market need and continue to the deliver best of breed new business intake and risk management solutions to market.”

About Frayman Group

Frayman Group, a leading provider of new business intake and risk management software for law firms, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to help customers automate business processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. The company is headquartered in New York City.  For more information, visit fraymangroup.com, follow Frayman Group on Twitter and Facebook.

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