{"id":111154,"date":"2021-04-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2860056"},"modified":"2021-04-09T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:00:00","slug":"major-us-law-firm-nelson-mullins-deploys-repstor-easy-button-to-deliver-matter-centricity-privacy-control-governance-as-teams-becomes-the-firms-default-workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2021\/04\/09\/major-us-law-firm-nelson-mullins-deploys-repstor-easy-button-to-deliver-matter-centricity-privacy-control-governance-as-teams-becomes-the-firms-default-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Major US law firm Nelson Mullins deploys Repstor ‘easy button’ to deliver matter centricity, privacy control & governance as Teams becomes the firm’s default workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The American Law 100 firm, which recently deployed Microsoft 365, sees Teams as the key to coordinating matter management, knowledge sharing and client collaboration in one place – with full privacy and information compliance control delivered by Repstor for Teams<\/em><\/p>\n

Belfast, April \u00a09th<\/sup>, 2021 \u2013 Repstor<\/a>, the Microsoft 365-based information management specialist, has announced that prominent US law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP<\/a> has selected Repstor for Teams to support its transition to Microsoft Teams as its primary workspace for attorneys and paralegals. Repstor will provide the client matter-centric management for content, as well as privacy and information compliance controls, that will enable the firm to exploit Teams to its full potential.<\/p>\n

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP (better known as Nelson Mullins), headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, is one of the largest law firms in the US with 26 offices across the country, from Boston and New York to Miami and Atlanta. It provides advice and counsel to private individuals and large businesses, across a broad range of practice areas. In 2020, American Lawyer<\/em> ranked Nelson Mullins as the 68th largest law firm in the US based on gross revenue.<\/p>\n

The firm\u2019s IT team strives to stay 6-12 months ahead of the needs of its users, and had already identified the transformative potential of Microsoft Teams before the pandemic struck. But it had come up against a problem: Teams\u2019 lack of inherent support for matter-centric ways of working and organising content. When the impact of COVID-19 triggered new demand for people to work from home, activating the transition to Teams became more urgent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had been a Skype environment previously, and wanted to move to Teams for all aspects of communication anyway having rolled out Microsoft 365 across the firm. But the difficulty was that Teams doesn\u2019t have matter-centricity built in,\u201d explains David Worth, Nelson Mullins\u2019 CIO. \u201cTo get buy-in from our attorneys and prevent chaos as they tried to organise and find the right Teams for collaboration by client or matter, we needed a more intuitive and controlled user experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

A trusted legal industry-focused management consulting firm which had been providing consultancy to Nelson Mullins, suggested Repstor for Teams. The software, which runs natively in Microsoft 365, provides optimized matter-centric capabilities and controls for Teams, in a familiar user experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs well as offering all the controls and functionality we needed as a law firm, and that user-friendly experience to keep our professionals happy, Repstor brought that depth of experience of working with law firms, that understanding of our needs, and that ability to talk our language,\u201d David notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cImportantly, Repstor also readily integrates with NetDocs and other DMSs, with Aderant, our practice management system and Intapp, our ethical walls solution. In other words, they were going to be able to cater for everything we needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Repstor\u2019s content management, governance and privacy controls will be important as Nelson Mullins pursues its wider goals \u2013 to make Teams the place where client matter management and file-sharing happens, giving professionals a single window on their work and reducing email reliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the initial motivation for moving to Teams is for communications \u2013 chat, conference-calling, and screen-sharing \u2013 we soon realised the scope to do so much more with it, and Repstor will help us realise that,\u201d David says. \u201cWe\u2019re an Outlook shop and traditionally attorneys\u2019 work is dominated by email, but Teams is shifting that paradigm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also see Teams become a quasi-replacement for intranets, supported by Repstor technology. With direct integration with our DMS, and even our financial system, our people will be able to \u2018live\u2019 in Teams and do everything from there. What\u2019s great is that we have the right set-up with Repstor and the right advisors around us to work out how to make that look and feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once fully implemented, Repstor for Teams will be used by 1,600 professionals across Nelson Mullins\u2019 national operations. \u201cPeople are beating down my door to get access to this, and that demand is ubiquitous from across the firm \u2013 something I haven\u2019t witnessed before in my 30-year tenure,\u201d David notes. \u201cRolling out Teams, by practice area, will be our biggest project for this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a chance to transform knowledge sharing across our 26 offices. When this is done our professionals will have one place to share knowledge and experiences, and will be able to find and consume what they need when they need to. I see Teams, optimized by Repstor, as the first real collaboration platform for law firms. It will be attorneys\u2019 first real opportunity to collaborate with clients too, without the need to build an extranet which would be a lot of work. It will make them more nimble, able to address clients\u2019 needs more swiftly.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepstor is our \u2018easy\u2019 button,\u201d David concludes. \u201cAs CIO, I don\u2019t have to worry about figuring out how to manage the archiving or the compliance, as Repstor takes all of that pain away. Repstor are so aligned with us, it\u2019s fantastic. They understand our goals and are providing excellent guidance. Taking this forward is proving a very enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n

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