Refresh helped double adoption at Amlaw 100 firm
Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP is an AmLaw 100 law firm with 620 lawyers in 12 offices across the United States. In practice for more than 160 years, the firm combines a comprehensive range of traditional legal practices with significant national roles in class action defense, corporate and securities, government relations, healthcare, intellectual property, insurance, investment management, private equity, bankruptcy, energy, environmental, education and communications.
Challenge
Over the course of the seven years since the firm’s initial iManage implementation, technology had evolved, but Drinker Biddle’s IT infrastructure and best practices in how iManage was implemented lagged behind.
Solution
Taking advantage of improved broadband access and new data center offerings and under new CIO, Dan McLoughlin, the law firm embarked on an infrastructure upgrade and consolidation of 16 iManage libraries across 12 offices into a single library to simplify collaboration firm wide.
Benefits
98 percent of users are now using the firm’s document management system, compared to less than half who were doing so prior to the refresh. With a single library and improved search capabilities, matter teams can quickly find the information they need
