Berwin Leighton Paisner adopts Workshare® 3 to save time and ease frustration for its lawyers.
UK’s leading real estate law firm speeds documents productivity and increases client service
London, 1st June 2004 – Workshare, the leading provider of content change applications, today announces that Berwin Leighton Paisner will deploy Workshare 3 across its entire organisation as part of a fundamental desktop improvement programme. Its 1,000 employees will now easily manage changes for all legal documents and will be able to deliver projects with less frustration and on time.
Berwin Leighton Paisner decided to conduct a major IT desktop overhaul project to keep abreast of the latest productivity software for its lawyers. They began by auditing the tasks that created difficulties and obstacles and discovered that a key problem for legal professionals was the lack of speed and inefficiency when sharing documents over email and the problem of document ‘corruption’. By sharing Microsoft Word documents with several people, files often become corrupt and must be completely rewritten, increasing frustration and the time taken to complete the task.
Workshare 3 saves time and reduces frustration for busy professionals who work with clients and co-workers via e-mail on critical business documents. Because Workshare 3 seamlessly integrates with their document management system, it offers Berwin Leighton Paisner an audit trail of changes to their important documents. In addition, Workshare 3 automatically removes document metadata from Microsoft Office files and automatically converts documents to PDF files upon e-mailing to further reduce exposure and retain the integrity of sensitive information.
“At Berwin Leighton Paisner, everything we do is framed around delivering a high level of service to our clients,” says Janet Day, IT director at Berwin Leighton Paisner. “Lawyers need transparent solutions, they don’t need to know how software works and to ensure that we meet these exacting standards we need to ensure that our lawyers are less constrained about the way software operates around them. We need to remove any barriers and obstacles that make it hard for our lawyers to do their jobs, and in Workshare 3 we have found exactly that.”
Lawyers at Berwin Leighton Paisner send out an average of 8,500 emails each day and work on an average of 1,600 documents per day. Six or seven different parties typically contribute to these documents, increasing the chance of crashed documents, frustration and time delays.
Andrew Pearson, executive vice president, EMEA for Workshare comments, “The legal industry is challenged with enhancing client service and improving document quality, while reducing overheads and enhancing employee productivity. Workshare 3 provides law firms like Berwin Leighton Paisner the ability to maintain a competitive edge by enabling the firm to dramatically improve and streamline its document production process.”
Workshare 3 will integrate seamlessly with Interwoven’s Worksite 8 document management system at Berwin Leighton Paisner’s offices.
About Berwin Leighton Paisner
Berwin Leighton Paisner is a leading real estate law firm based in London with an office in Brussels and alliance offices in New York, Paris, Milan and Rome. The law firm represents UK and multinational institutions and companies across a wide range of industry sectors. Berwin Leighton Paisner is committed to service innovation. It operates personalised client extranets, provides a free on-line legal briefing service through its website and has developed beprofessional, a tool offering web-based business solutions for small and medium sized enterprises, with its joint venture partner Deloitte & Touche.
Workshare 3 in Law Firms
Workshare 3 is a feature-rich software application that automates the managing of changes to legal documents. Workshare 3 provides easy PDF conversion of Word documents and protects email-centric law firms from inadvertently exposing confidential information in hidden document metadata. Workshare 3 saves time and reduces frustration for busy professionals who work with customers and co-workers via e-mail on critical business documents
Workshare 3 has also been selected by leading law firms such as Manches, Baker & McKenzie, Ashurst and DLA for their entire enterprise.
About Workshare
Workshare is the industry leader providing document integrity applications for professionals in global enterprises. Its suite of high-value document lifecycle products includes award-winning Workshare 3 for review, Workshare DeltaView for verification, and Workshare Protect for security. Workshare’s customer base spans more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 85 percent of the top 250 professional services firms, including Siemens, Caterpillar, Nortel Networks, Sony Music, Hartford Life Insurance, Wells Fargo, Clifford Chance, Baker & McKenzie, PwC and KPMG. In total, more than 4,300 companies and over 650,000 professionals in 60 countries use Workshare’s software. The company has offices in London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, CapeTown, Hong Kong and Melbourne. Workshare is the sponsor of www.metadatarisk.org, the definitive source for content security. For more information, visit www.workshare.com.
