“(Version control) what was previously one of the most painful parts of the whole process can now be completed in minutes."

The challenge

Working closely with their corporate practice, the Knowledge & Information Services team at Fieldfisher identified verification as a major pain point that needed priority attention.

Lawyers were using a combination of Word, Excel, their document management system, and the occasional large lever arch file, which was inefficient, not environmentally friendly and unfavourable to both the client experience and employee morale. 

Before Atticus, Rochelle Garnon, Head of Knowledge & Information Services at Fieldfisher says: 

Previously, verification was very slow. Version control was a nightmare, & only one person could work on the document at any one point in time. Analysis was limited to the amount of text that can be inserted within an Excel cell.

The team recognised that they needed to find a solution urgently, and moved quickly to conduct a market review to understand the needs of their corporate practice.

The solution

Fieldfisher first used Atticus when a large deal came in with a tight, three-week turnaround. Having seen how easy it was to get started on Atticus, the firm agreed a deal and the project was underway.

We wouldn’t have been able to meet the three-week turnaround but for Atticus helping to streamline our processes so drastically. Manual verification would have taken double the time.

MINIMAL TRAINING

On their first project, Fieldfisher were delighted with how quickly users were up-and-running. The whole process was ‘very smooth…Atticus were forthcoming with the information we needed and the training required is minimal’.

painless version control

Version control was the biggest pain point for Fieldfisher before using Atticus. The platform ‘perfectly’ addressed this need, with the firm now enjoying a ‘slick transition with every uploaded draft’.

The way Atticus deals with version control is a thing of beauty.

EXPEDITED COLLABORATION

As a platform that supports real-time collaboration, Atticus enabled the team at Fieldfisher to work on the platform simultaneously. This mitigated the time previously spent waiting for people to respond to emails and facilitated a more dynamic approach to a traditionally linear process.