Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. strives to consistently offer clients cost-effective and innovative legal counsel. But there are a lot of moving parts to making this happen. It takes time for new associates to get up to speed to learn how to analyze legal trends, research precedents, or draft documents. Investing in smart legal technology that helps them achieve these tasks efficiently is imperative to meet — and exceed — client expectations.
Reinhart recently added a new resource to its arsenal to help its lawyers to deliver on the firm’s customer first promise: Thomson Reuters Practical Law Connect. Members of the firm agreed talk with Thomson Reuters to share their experience with Practical Law Connect in a new video case study series.
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Uniquely organized by task, Practical Law Connect integrates Practical Law know-how, Westlaw primary law content, forms, secondary sources, West km, and other time-saving tools — all on one platform. Practical Law Connect helps law firms keep stride with changes in law, by providing access to relevant practice area resources and tools.
Kevin Howley, senior shareholder in Reinhart’s Corporate and M&A practice group, stressed the firm’s commitment to client centricity as one of the key reasons the firm decided to invest in Practical Law Connect. “When we make decisions around here, we try to do it through the vision of what impact it will have on our ability to satisfy our commitments to our clients.” He added, “We look at our investments in technology from the standpoint of how it can make us more effective in representing our clients. Practice Point helps us deliver on this.”
For associates Nick Zuiker and Tristan Dollinger, Practical Law Connect’s task-based menus and comprehensive collection of legal resources has proven a significant time saver, allowing them to execute their work in less time. According to Zuiker, “Time is money and we’re always trying to get out tasks done in the most efficient way possible. With Practical Law Connect, everything is right there, accessible and easy to find.” Dollinger agrees, “Practice Point ahelps me drill down into more specific topic areas, in a more efficient manner. It helps bring my attention to other related areas that I might not have thought of on my own without prompts from drop-down menus.”
For Dollinger, the bottom line is that “Practice Point provides tools that allow for greater efficiencies, and that translates into cost savings for the clients.”
Streamlining the number of legal resources lawyers need to practice, leads to less time searching for information and more time spent doing the work. Carol Bannen, Reinhart’s Director of Information Resources explains “The beauty of Practice Point is that it’s bringing together a lot of these resources in one spot so it’s more one-stop shopping for [our associates], much like the old shelves on a library.”
Through extensive research and input from customers, Thomson Reuters developed Practical Law Connect, the first solution to integrate Practical Law know-how with essential Westlaw primary law and tools, intuitively organized by the Practical Law Editorial team. Practical Law Connect is organized around over 2,000 tasks, across 11 practice areas and a variety of in-house counsel projects, so you can be confident in getting the information you need for your practice. To learn more, or to sign up for a free trial, click here.