FWBS provides matter centre solution to Browne Jacobson

Bringing matters together
CASE STUDY: assessing BROWNE JACOBSON’s IT needs
Browne Jacobson is one of the largest law firms in the Midlands with regional and national reach
through offices in Birmingham, London and Nottingham. They are now over 500 strong with
196 lawyers and 62 partners, supported by a team of professional specialists.
Famous for their friendly and straightforward approach, they deliver first class individual
solutions for their clients. With a vision to be the first choice law firm for clients and employees
in the Midlands, they place emphasis on people, both internally and externally.
assessing Browne jacobson’s IT needs
The IT aims of Browne Jacobson were examined in detail during a strategic review in 2005 and since that time have
been continually reviewed and updated. This exercise looked to align IT to the business and to create a matter-centric
approach based around the Microsoft platform with a number of best of breed solutions tightly integrated.
Browne Jacobson has been an innovator in Case Management solutions for over 10 years and their existing ‘Solcase’
system has been heavily modified over that time to meet the demands of over 80 work types and more than
2,000 clients. It eventually became too difficult to maintain and enhance, particularly as the market was becoming
more sophisticated in its demands, meaning there was a risk to losing market advantage if that situation was allowed
to continue.
In addition, Browne Jacobson was looking to automate all the common firm-wide processes, including client inception
and anti-money laundering, as well as further moves towards the electronic file. These initiatives would cover the whole
firm and not just legal professionals of Case Management.
Having selected Matter Centre as a modern, best of breed Case Management System for our future needs and with
our previous investment in Interwoven as the best of breed Document Management System, the integration between
the two products is excellent news and will deliver us a joined up, matter centric system that will enhance our reputation
as an efficient, cost effective and innovative firm. Peter Birley, Director of IT, Browne Jacobson LLP
The market leading solution
Matter Centre from FWBS provides legal professionals with unified control of their clients, tasks, workloads and all
related documents and reference materials, via a single click within Microsoft Office. This central approach supports
how legal professionals actually work by contextually organising activities and work flow, letting them easily view,
share, collaborate, and act on information seamlessly, fully immersed inside the familiarity of Microsoft Office. B
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Using Matter Centre will enable Browne Jacobson to create a powerful market leading offering that is easy
to deploy and can be adapted to meet changing client or regulatory compliance requirements.
The opportunity has also been taken to review many of their existing business processes to identify significant
process improvements, leading to more efficient ways of working together with improved client experiences.
Comprehensive workflow and associated design tools within Matter Centre will allow Browne Jacobson to deliver
common processes, including client inception and anti-money laundering, as part of a gateway for all common
processes and access to firm-wide client and matter data.
The controls available allow different legal professionals within the firm, with different roles or who work on certain
matter types, to have a unique view of their information, and the associated processes are easy to implement
using Matter Centre design tools.
Matter Centre’s comprehensive capability of bringing together information from 3rd party products will enable
Browne Jacobson to achieve their matter centric goals. All legal professionals can use information from external
or back office sources as well as interact with their current processes from one interface. i
key benefits of Matter Centre
> Improved productivity:
Enables legal professionals to organise and collaborate
on client & matter information simply & efficiently.
> User experience:
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ailorable to the needs of legal professionals which
drives the adoption of the solution firm wide
• L everaging investment in the familiar Microsoft Office
environment provides legal professionals ease
of navigation of client and matter information
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ich context of information as all firm’s client, matter,
document and financial information is accessible
via a single click.
> Above: This shows the total integration of Interwoven document
management content as part of the Matter Centre view.
> Firm wide information backbone:
Matter Centre provides a gateway to all of the firm’s
information and process, incorporating real time capture
as necessary, all where legal professionals work,
within Microsoft Office.
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The team at FWBS Ltd have been driving law office technology innovation for over a decade. Our significant list of satisfied customers speaks
for itself with regards to ease of adoption, solutions capabilities and customer experience. We deliver a growing range of tightly integrated
solutions, with strong links to other leading vendors, for end-to-end law office management with comprehensive services.
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