The variety and volume of information law firms must manage continues to mushroom. To cope, law firms frequently implement matter centric organizational approaches. Matter centricity provides a standard, shared approach to data management that enables better collaboration, greater productivity and easier records management.
According to a 2006 survey conducted by the International Legal Technology Association, more than half of all law firms are either working in a matter centric environment or working to implement one.
However, achieving matter centricity is easier said than done, and firms face several barriers to successful implementation and use. For one, as organizations move to change existing practices, they typically expend great effort to secure staff buy-in, overcome status quo inertia and design and execute a successful roll-out. Assuming they can achieve consensus and support, or moving ahead without it, firms must implement potentially complex changes to internal document and information management standards.
To enable firms to rapidly design, implement and migrate to a matter centric environment, IntApp has partnered with Baker Robbins & Company (BRCO), a leading provider of technology and information management consulting to law firms.
Leveraging its industry expertise, Baker Robbins offers firms a quick path to matter centricity through a proprietary Matter Centricity Readiness Solution. Working collaboratively with practice group leaders, records, IT and firm management, Baker Robbins experts:
This holistic approach addresses user, technology and process issues to increase the opportunity for quick and complete success.
To implement a matter centric environment, Baker Robbins relies on IntApp's Integration Builder to provide data communication among a variety of firm applications and its proprietary workspace management application. With real-time data propagation of user information, team composition, billing activity, matter status and new matter creation data, this combined solution delivers end users immediate updates to the tools they depend on whenever new matters are created or modified.
