Luigi Cominelli spoke for Legalsofttech, an organisation created by a consortium of law firms to develop automation and IT services. It grew out of a broader project that focussed on services to support the growth of banking and finance litigation, but they now have services spanning five practice areas.

Legalsofttech has been using Legito for two years, with exponential growth of the services. They currently support 26 templates, with 50 in development, producing 2000 documents yearly. Early measurement demonstrated 2,532 hours saved for legal professionals and additional revenue of 4.6%. Luigi said those figures date from the early stages of the project – the current metrics would be higher. Legalsofttech started work with software from another vendor before switching to Legito.

They identified two important factors for switching to Legito:

1. Legito Workspace

Legito Workspaces allowed them to manage the use of services by multiple law firms in multiple areas while ensuring that each user had access to relevant services without compromising the confidentiality of any law firms. Workspaces provided a fine degree of control to support the diverse users.

2. User-friendly software

They discovered that the software has to be user-friendly “…and near perfect…”. Lawyers are still resistant to change, and the younger generations of lawyers are intolerant of poorly designed software. If users don’t like using the software, they will not adopt it and continue to work in the same way they have always done it. Legalsofttech found users appreciated the look and feel of the system, and they liked the output. The project adopted a legal design approach, which made a big difference.

Legalsofttech encouraged the adoption of Legito tools by demonstrating the service to clients. The clients liked what they saw, which caused the lawyers to start using the tool requested by the clients.

“…Sophistication of the graphical output is what clients want more and more…it’s output conceived with a legal design approach…”

Luigi understands that law firms use multiple systems. It was essential to integrate Legito with some of those systems, and they could achieve the integration using Legito APIs. For example, lawyers could export data from their case management systems to avoid re-keying data manually into Legito.

Looking to the future, Luigi finds the challenges faced by law firms two or three years ago are still at large. There are still more opportunities to address those challenges using tools like Legito, and more firms are willing to use the consortium resources, confident in the protection of their work possible with Legito Workspaces.

We thank Luigi for taking the time to talk about his experience.

Luigi Cominelli spoke for Legalsofttech, an organisation created by a consortium of law firms to develop automation and IT services. It grew out of a broader project that focussed on services to support the growth of banking and finance litigation, but they now have services spanning five practice areas.

Legalsofttech has been using Legito for two years, with exponential growth of the services. They currently support 26 templates, with 50 in development, producing 2000 documents yearly. Early measurement demonstrated 2,532 hours saved for legal professionals and additional revenue of 4.6%. Luigi said those figures date from the early stages of the project – the current metrics would be higher. Legalsofttech started work with software from another vendor before switching to Legito.

They identified two important factors for switching to Legito:

1. Legito Workspace

Legito Workspaces allowed them to manage the use of services by multiple law firms in multiple areas while ensuring that each user had access to relevant services without compromising the confidentiality of any law firms. Workspaces provided a fine degree of control to support the diverse users.

2. User-friendly software

They discovered that the software has to be user-friendly “…and near perfect…”. Lawyers are still resistant to change, and the younger generations of lawyers are intolerant of poorly designed software. If users don’t like using the software, they will not adopt it and continue to work in the same way they have always done it. Legalsofttech found users appreciated the look and feel of the system, and they liked the output. The project adopted a legal design approach, which made a big difference.

Legalsofttech encouraged the adoption of Legito tools by demonstrating the service to clients. The clients liked what they saw, which caused the lawyers to start using the tool requested by the clients.

“…Sophistication of the graphical output is what clients want more and more…it’s output conceived with a legal design approach…”

Luigi understands that law firms use multiple systems. It was essential to integrate Legito with some of those systems, and they could achieve the integration using Legito APIs. For example, lawyers could export data from their case management systems to avoid re-keying data manually into Legito.

Looking to the future, Luigi finds the challenges faced by law firms two or three years ago are still at large. There are still more opportunities to address those challenges using tools like Legito, and more firms are willing to use the consortium resources, confident in the protection of their work possible with Legito Workspaces.

We thank Luigi for taking the time to talk about his experience.