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3 reasons for Using Microsoft 365 to Automate Matter Management

James Grice, Business Relationship Manager for Eversheds Sutherland spoke about Collaboration in the Cloud with Microsoft 365 at the British Legal Technology Forum in March this year.

Find out more about the 3 reasons for using Microsoft 365 to automate matter management.

  • Simplified matter management tools that adhere to data management regulations
  • Smart collaboration for legal teams and with clients
  • Live client insights and data to help lawyers make better decisions

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National Grid Case Study – National Grid Deploys Microsoft 365-based ES/Unity™

National Grid deploys Microsoft 365-based ES/Unity™ – enabling new ways of working and greater consistency and efficiency in legal matter management.

“Everyone is very happy. Collaboration is very good, there’s improved visibility of where things are and what is happening, and people are working well and retrieving matter-related content easily.”

Mo Ajaz, National Grid’s Group Head of Legal Operational Excellence

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87% of users report an ‘excellent’ experience as National Grid deploys Microsoft 365-based Matter Management

The legal matter management solution from Eversheds Sutherland & Repstor harnesses existing MS platforms to improve productivity, efficiency & flexibility

Belfast, UK – May 1st, 2018 – Repstor, the ECM adoption company that helps businesses exploit their SharePoint and Microsoft 365 investments, has named National Grid plc as the latest happy customer of ES/Unity™. The consultancy-led, Microsoft 365-based proposition, developed by Repstor in partnership with international law firm Eversheds Sutherland, is already recording very high user acceptance scores thanks to the way it harnesses National Grid’s existing Microsoft software platforms.

The British multinational electricity and gas utility company has a large UK legal department whose six teams provide legal services to more than 17 business entities and 24 business areas. A reorganisation of the business and a drive to provide more with less prompted the legal function to bring improved consistency and coordination to the way it managed legal matters.

“We wanted to move to a standardised approach – to improve productivity, simplicity and efficiency,” explains Mo Ajaz, National Grid’s Group Head of Legal Operational Excellence, whose role is to ensure that any IT investments within the legal department achieve results. Rather than invest in a dedicated legal document management system, National Grid wanted to make fuller use of standard software that users had already – across and beyond the legal department.

It chose ES/Unity, Powered by Repstor™ because it brings consistency to the way people store and access matter-related documents and emails, without users having to change the way they do things. They simply work on matters using a familiar Outlook user experience for email filing, document management and collaboration, and managing the matter lifecycle.

Importantly, ES/Unity was developed with direct input from Eversheds Sutherland’s own legal teams. Eversheds Sutherland provides the associated implementation consultancy too, supported by Repstor, ensuring a smooth transition and high user adoption.

Evidence of this is abundant: in a follow-up user survey, 87 per cent of National Grid’s legal team said their experience of ES/Unity and the new way of working was ‘excellent’; the remaining 13 per cent were very positive too. “Everyone is very happy,” Mo says. “Collaboration is very good, there’s improved visibility of where things are and what is happening, and people are working well and retrieving matter-related content easily.”

Word of the project’s early success has already spread to other functions at National Grid. Risk and Head of Investigations have now also rolled out ES/Unity, and the Company Secretary’s office, Property and other departments are interested too. “Having seen how easy ES/Unity has been to adopt, enthusiasm has spread across the business,” Mo says.

  • Based on the project’s successful adoption, in early 2018 National Grid entered it for The Lawyer Awards for Most Innovative Use of Technology.
  • National Grid will give a presentation about its experience of deploying and using ES/Unity at AIIM Forum UK 2018 on June 20th in London.  Register to attend here.

Repstor to Exhibit and Speak at Europe’s Largest Law Expo – London Law Expo 2017

The company prepares to launch a new campaign to help Law Firms exploit Office 365 for Matter Management

September 29th, 2017 – Repstor, the ECM adoption company that helps businesses exploit their SharePoint and Office 365 investments, has today announced that it is participating as an exhibitor and speaker at this year’s London Law Expo 2017.

This year’s event is being held at Old Billingsgate on October 10th and sees the amalgamation of the London Law Expo and the European Legal Security Forum. The event features 6 presentation stages, 70 expert speakers, 80 exhibitors and an estimated 2,000 visitors from the world of legal practice management, technology and IT security.

Repstor and strategic customer and partner, Eversheds Sutherland, join a line-up of world class speakers to present at 2PM on the Technology Hub stage. The talk entitled, ‘Exploiting Office 365 for Matter Management’, will be presented jointly by Eversheds Sutherland’s Graham Richardson and Repstor’s Sheila Gormley.

Repstor will launch its Office365 for Matter Management campaign featuring its new white paper ‘7 Indisputable Reasons to use Office 365 for Matter Management’. London Law Expo delegates are invited get their complimentary copy from stand A24 or download a PDF here.

CTO of Repstor Fergus Wilson added:

“Office 365 is an existing resource most firms have already invested in, and many of its capabilities are inherently superior to those of dedicated matter management systems. This is largely due to the huge investment Microsoft has made in Office 365, added to the vast ecosystem of Microsoft software partners which are enhancing Office 365 all the time with new, specialist features and integration options.”

Fergus continues, “Our latest campaign will help firms to make the case for selecting Office 365 for complete matter lifecycle management – a move that law firms ranging from large international practices like Eversheds Sutherland to challenger firms like gunnercooke have already made.”

Drop by stand A24 to discuss how Repstor can transform your firms’ SharePoint and Office 365 adoption.

Join us at the British Legal Technology Forum, March 14th

The Repstor team will be at the British Legal Technology Forum ’17 on March 14th at The Old Billingsgate, London.

Come and talk to us at what is now Europe’s largest IT event where we will be featuring custodian for legal, our matter management solution for Law Firms and Legal Departments. Plus watch this space for a HUGE announcement of a unique partnership and solution to be unveiled at the event!

ForFarmers Selects Repstor custodian for Legal

The legal department of ForFarmers has selected the custodian for Legal product as its new document, email and legal project management system….

London, 18 April 2016

Repstor, ECM adoption and Matter Management specialist, is proud to announce that the legal department of ForFarmers has selected the custodian for Legal product as its new document, email and legal project management system. Transform Data International (TDI), the BeNeLux based partner of Repstor, will lead the implementation for ForFarmers.

During the upcoming weeks TDI will work with the ForFarmers organization to ensure a smooth implementation and to setup training sessions for the legal team.

Vince van de Weijer

“We are delighted to be able to add ForFarmers as a new customer, and that the Repstor custodian solution is such a good match to their technical and business requirements,” said Vince van de Weijer, General Manager at Transform Data International.

 

Ilse Niehof ForFarmers_smallIlse Niehof, Legal Counsel Business at ForFarmers commented, “We evaluated the Repstor custodian solution and found that it clearly fits with our technical legal strategy and from a business perspective, it is definitely the most appropriate solution for our needs.”

 

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About ForFarmers
ForFarmers is an internationally operating company active in the area of conventional and organic total feed solutions for livestock. With sales of approximately 9.1 million tons of feed annually, ForFarmers is a market leader in Europe. With its products, ForFarmers offers customers additional knowledge and advice in the areas of feed, animal keeping and business development. Net sales amounts to €2.2 billion.

About Transform Data International (TDI)
Transform Data International was founded to help organizations optimize the overall productivity of their workforce by reselling and implementing ECM, Mobility and Cloud solutions.
TDI specializes in finding solutions for making the optimal use of information, for instance to support decision-making processes or day-to-day operations that require the availability of accurate data.
TDI has a special focus on professional services and legal markets to help companies and corporate departments manage their information in an easy and intuitive way to be compliant and efficient.
Learn more about Transform Data International and custodian for Legal and Professional Services on our website www.transformdata.eu or contact us via info@transformdata.eu.

About Repstor
Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce.  Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.  By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office365.

Repstor encourages a Microsoft approach to Matter Management at the British Legal Technology Forum 2016

Repstor is exhibiting at the ‘British Legal Technology Forum 2016’ at the Old Billingsgate, London on Tuesday, 8th March 2016…

London, 7 March 2016

Repstor, ECM adoption and Matter Management specialist, is proud to announce it is exhibiting at the ‘British Legal Technology Forum 2016’ at the Old Billingsgate, London on Tuesday, 8th March 2016.

With over 1,200 visitors from the world of law and legal technology expected to attend the 2016 event, The British Legal Technology Forum will bring together the most respected professionals from both the legal and commercial technology sectors to examine and explore the systems, strategies, processes and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond.

Repstor will be showcasing its “custodian for legal” product which enables firms to maximize their Microsoft investment to provide Legal Matter Management.

Legal professionals will confirm that email is still their primary communication tool and that they need an intuitive solution to manage emails as part of a matter.  custodian is this solution – it enables users to manage matter related emails and documents together, avoiding the issue of isolated email content and applying consistent structures for managing matter based content. By utilizing the powerful and familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook® custodian ensures the highest level of user-adoption and minimizes the need for migrating complex and costly legacy systems.

Repstor custodian extends Office 365TM/SharePoint®, to deliver a complete matter management solution by providing matter-centric collaboration, document and email management capabilities directly within Office 365/SharePoint. Most importantly, this capability is provided seamlessly within Outlook. Users can also work on or offline and access content from multiple different sources in addition to the matter management system.

custodian also allows firms to ensure that they maximize investments in Microsoft technologies, and can take advantage of the broader Microsoft platform including analytics, compliance, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and so on.

Alan McMillen from Repstor will be speaking on the demonstration stage at 10:25. Alan will discuss how to achieve high performance remote access to your DMS (Document Management System) and use your Microsoft investment to deliver enhanced Matter Management.

If you are attending the ‘British Legal Technology Forum 2016’, come and see Repstor at stand #A4.

Event Details

Event:  British Legal Technology Forum 2016
Date:   8th March 2016
Time:   08:30 – 18:30
Venue:  Old Billingsgate, London
Address:      16 Lower Thames St, London, EC3R 6DX
Nearest Tube:  Monument / London Bridge / Tower Hill

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About Repstor

Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce.  Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.   By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office 365.