Category: Enterprise

The law firm of Woods & Aitken LLP can trace its history back to 1904 when the firm of Hall, Woods & Pound was established in Lincoln, Nebraska. The longevity of their client relationships has afforded Woods & Aitken the opportunity to emerge as a national leader in the practice of construction, telecommunications, and banking and finance law. Their commitment to service fueled their expansion from the original Lincoln, Nebraska office to establish offices in Denver, Colorado, Omaha, Nebraska and Washington, DC. The firm has been a Worldox customer since 1999. They deployed the GX3 Professional version in 2012, the

The attorneys at Lear & Lear, LLP were satisfied users and proponents of the Worldox GX3 Professional document management system (DMS) for several years. They enjoyed its easy-to-use interface, cost-saving benefits and an array of convenient features. Staff members benefited from the profiling process, which requires users to label documents in a consistent and logical manner, greatly accelerating how to find files for instant access. As content as they were with GX3 Professional, however, they realized that running it over a VPN did not offer the performance that they needed. They had a remote branch with users who needed a

Background Law firms have an unparalleled amount of information to manage and track, and as any law professional knows, efficiently handling the volume of documents is one of the most challenging tasks involved in managing a law firm. With more than 15 years of documents accumulated on our server, that task was becoming even more cumbersome for my law firm, Lombardo & Gilles, based in Salinas, Calif. We started looking for a new document management system (DMS) to create a more paperless office, and also to modernize our firm’s email management system, which was costly, paper-intensive and time – consuming.

The Decision The time came to upgrade iManage 7.5 to 8.0. The question was … would this be the right move for our firm? The 8.0 upgrade would probably not be all that simple. After all, moving from 5.x to 7.5 had not been particularly easy. Application integration with iManage had turned out to be complicated, to say the least. The more we learned, the more difficult the decision became. As discovery continued, we realized that iManage 8.0 required its own SQL server. We had been running a single SQL server for our accounting, timekeeping and iManage databases. That would