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Head of Operations David Smith will explore Matter Management Solutions on Office 365 while Repstor is once again an event sponsor and exhibiting at Booth A22
Belfast, March 2nd, 2020 – Repstor, the content services and matter lifecycle management specialist, today announced that its customer, Anthony Gold Solicitors, will present at the forthcoming British Legal Technology Forum, of which Repstor is also a key sponsor. Partner and Head of Operations David Smith will present ‘Successfully Transitioning to a Matter Management Solution on Office 365’ at 11.15am at the ‘Masergy‘ Innovation Stage on the 10th March.
Europe’s largest law expo returns to the Old Billingsgate, London on Tuesday 10th March 2020 and will welcome visitors from the world of legal practice management, technology and IT security. With four presentation stages and over 100 exhibitors, The British Legal Technology Forum will explore a wide array of topics, issues and opportunities to assist law firms and legal businesses increase their overall performance, profitability and levels of IT security.
David Smith is a solicitor specialising in residential property litigation and is also Head of Operations for Anthony Gold Solicitors. He is responsible for much of the non-legal staff and operations in the business including all IT purchasing and supply. His session will show how the company moved to the cloud, why it chose to deploy Office 365 and Repstor Custodian for Legal™ and what the next steps are in the company’s journey of digital transformation.
Commenting on Smith’s appearance at The British Legal Technology Forum, Sheila Gormley, Repstor’s co-founder and director of Legal Solutions, said: “Law firms and legal teams globally are moving to Office 365 – but few are getting the best out of it. This powerful presentation from David will help legal specialists make the most of their Office 365 investments.”
Repstor is also exhibiting at Booth A22, where it will showcase Custodian for Legal™, its Office 365-based document, email and matter lifecycle management system, which is relied on by legal teams across the globe. Its collaboration and document management capabilities, optimised for legal users, harness the familiar interface of Microsoft Outlook and other popular Office 365 applications including SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, reflecting the way people instinctively communicate and share content with clients and colleagues.
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Belfast, February 5th , 2020 – Repstor, the ECM software and matter management specialist, today unveiled its latest flagship European customer, Atlas, an independent tax law firm in the Netherlands, which has transformed its approach to business with Custodian for Legal.
Following the formation of a strategic alliance with Tiberghien, another leading tax law firm with a strong presence in Belgium and Luxembourg, it became critical that teams across this powerful network needed to collaborate effectively and efficiently, both internally between different geographical locations, and externally with clients.
The companies therefore wanted to consolidate all client, matter and project management information, document management and activity notes on a shared platform common to all legal and tax professionals. They needed an intuitive, easy-to-use system: one that would feel comfortable and familiar to professionals and administrators, rather than require a departure from the way they already worked.
Dutch business software specialist, Transform Data International, introduced Atlas to Custodian for Legal, a collaboration and matter management solution from Repstor. The software has been specifically designed to meet the needs of legal teams, with capabilities for every aspect of client, matter and broader project management. Easily integrated with Office 365©, it runs natively within the platform, to deliver high performance in a way that feels natural and familiar to users.
The new platform also enables teams to further reduce internal email communication, as incoming matter-related messages can be filed directly into relevant dossiers for immediate access and sharing information. Moreover, advanced Search functionality provided via the Office 365 tool, Qwickr, allows users to search a large set of files with ease, and quickly refine, sort and group results, saving valuable time that might otherwise be spent looking for information.
At the same time, Transform Data has connected Custodian for Legal to Microsoft Dynamics© using its Qonnector synchronisation tool, so that when data is added or amended in Dynamics 365, updates are automatically reflected in Office 365/Custodian for Legal.
“Our collaboration has worked very efficiently. Transform Data has undertaken many projects of this nature and is able to bring to bear best practices from other implementations. This made it very easy for us to design the system,” comments Dennis Ruzius, operations manager at Atlas. “The project team worked hard to implement this solution in a short timeframe, which has resulted in a close and committed relationship between our two organisations.”
“We are delighted to introduce Atlas to our growing family of European customers in the legal sector,” adds Sheila Gormley, Director of Business Development at Repstor. “It is a great demonstration of how our Custodian for Legal software can transform communications to deliver numerous substantial organisational and administrative benefits.”
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Atlas is an independent tax law firm in the Netherlands, with its office in the city centre of Amsterdam.
Branded under the name T/A International, the growing business has entered into a significant strategic partnership with Tiberghien, another leading tax law firm with a strong presence in Belgium and Luxembourg. Combined, the two firms have formed an impressive tax network across Benelux, providing access to more than 100 dedicated tax lawyers across three jurisdictions, via offices spanning Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Hasselt and Luxembourg.
To maximise the potential and performance of this powerful market proposition, it is critical that teams across this powerful tax law network can collaborate effectively and efficiently, both internally between different geographical locations, and externally with clients.
Dutch business software specialist, Transform Data International, introduced Atlas to Repstor’s Custodian for Legal™. The software has been specifically designed to meet the needs of legal teams, with capabilities for every aspect of client, matter and broader project management. Easily integrated with Office 365, it runs natively within the platform, to deliver high performance in a way that feels natural and familiar to users.
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In line with our on-going commitments to security, Repstor have now achieved Cyber Essentials Plus Certification which has been verified by Pentest People, who are a CREST accredited UK Security Consultancy. This certification provides re-assurance to our customers that Repstor takes cyber security seriously and that we have annual commitments in-place to verify our security standards and ensure they meet National Cyber Security Centre Standards.
You can also validate our certification via the National Cyber Security Centre or you can quickly access our certification details by clicking here
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Belfast, November 20th , 2019 – Repstor, the ECM software and matter management specialist, has today announced the launch of a Microsoft Teams™ Webinar Series designed to help organizations get the best from this powerful platform, without introducing new risk around content management.
In the first three webinars (full details below), experienced Microsoft Teams’ practitioners, Fergus Wilson and Scott Brant will use Repstor technology and specific use cases to highlight the main risk factors if appropriate information governance policies and controls are not applied.
For each audience, Fergus and Scott will offer practical advice under 5 categories:
Announcing the timely webinar series, Fergus commented, “The soaring popularity of Microsoft Teams confirms the intuitive way people want to be able to collaborate today – on projects, ideas, problem-solving and decision-making. But without governance and control, Teams’ use can create new chaos for information and IT managers. In these three sessions we will equip those in charge with practical tips to get the best from this powerful platform, without introducing new risk around content management.”
The series kicks off on November 26th with a generic webinar targeting any company deploying Microsoft Teams and is followed by two sector specific webinars for Law Firms & In-house Legal Departments (December 3rd) and Professional Services (December 10th).
The 3 webinars are scheduled as follows:
10:30 GMT & 9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET
26th, November 2019
10:30 GMT & 9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET
3rd December, 2019
10:30 GMT & 9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET
10th December 2019
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Over 13 million people use MS Teams daily, while 19 million people use it every week[1]. These span more than 500,000 organizations around the world, including 91 per cent of the Fortune 100[2].
Repstor, which comprehensively addresses Teams management through its Custodian product suite, has recently published 2 indispensable white papers exploring the practical considerations as more organizations default to MS Teams as their primary means of communication and collaboration:
5 Ways to Maximize Microsoft Teams & Avoid Information Compliance Headaches, aimed at CIOs & information compliance managers, targets common pain points as enterprise use of MS Teams proliferates. Download the paper here.
5 ways to keep control of matter management as Microsoft Teams becomes the default collaboration platform for legal professionals looks more specifically at implications for legal operations managers as law firms standardise on MS Teams for discussing and processing client matters. Download the paper here.
[1] Microsoft Teams Reaches 20 Million Daily Users: Microsoft reveals daily user numbers for the first time, UC Today, July 2019
[2] Microsoft Teams: Celebrating 2 Years of Continued Growth, Microsoft, March 2019
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5 ways to keep control of matter management as Microsoft Teams becomes the default collaboration platform for legal professionals.
Microsoft has made no secret of its ambitions for Teams as the default platform for workplace collaboration. Teams now replaces Skype for Business, for instance, providing a secure central hub for all kinds of routine communications, conferencing and information sharing – both internally, and externally with clients and business partners.
This paper sets out some of the most common information management issues that can arise with uncontrolled Teams-based collaboration, and offers practical advice about how to address them in a legal setting so that law firms and their clients can enjoy the platform’s fullest benefits, unfettered by information governance issues.
Belfast – October 30th, 2019 – Repstor, the provider of Office 365-based content and collaboration management solutions, has published a new white paper with practical advice for information managers on how to keep control of Microsoft Teams content, as use of the platform proliferates.
The paper, 5 Ways to Maximise Microsoft Teams & Avoid Information Compliance Headaches, acknowledges the vast growth of Microsoft Teams, as organisations default to the platform as their primary collaboration tool.
“Microsoft Teams is fast becoming the business world’s default collaboration environment,” notes Fergus Wilson, Repstor’s CTO and author of the paper. “Today, more than 13 million people use it daily, and 19 million weekly. This is great, as Teams is very modern, powerful and easy to use and a great productivity enabler. But at the same time, it needs some controls to get the best from it.”
After years of perfecting information management policies and adhering to the latest Data Protection requirements, organisations can’t afford to risk undermining those efforts by giving employees carte blanche to set up Teams and share content as they see fit.
“The risks sound daunting, but they needn’t be,” Fergus says. “It’s something we’ve explored in detail in our new white paper. We advocate that companies adopt best-practice governance, just as they have in all other aspects of team collaboration and content management.”
The paper sets out a number of proactive measures organisations can take to maintain order. These include controls over Team creation; establishing naming conventions and agreed classifications; maintaining control of emailed content; setting appropriate content security parameters; and automating content lifecycle controls (around archiving or deleting old Team content, for instance).
“Our latest Repstor Custodian content management solutions, designed to be embedded directly within Microsoft Office 365, include all of the necessary controls to ensure that Microsoft Teams fulfils its potential as a powerful aid to collaboration – without exposing organisations to content management chaos,” Fergus notes. “We have listened to CIOs’ concerns and directly addressed them in the latest version of our products.
“These latest capabilities around Microsoft Teams are drawing a lot of attention from CIOs and information compliance managers who are worried about Teams’ use spiralling out of their control,” he adds. “They’re relieved that we’ve come up with a timely solution, just as MS Teams use goes stratospheric.”
The new Repstor white paper, 5 Ways to Maximise Microsoft Teams & Avoid Information Compliance Headaches, is available for download here.
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Repstor achieves BS EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017 certification from the British Assessment Bureau
Repstor has achieved certification to the internationally recognised BS EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017 standard, establishing it as one of the leaders in its field.
This independent assessment was conducted by the British Assessment Bureau, a leading Certification Body, and demonstrates Repstor’s commitment to keeping their data, staff and premises secure and aligning to international standards in information security.
Repstor has now earned the right to display the coveted British Assessment Bureau quality shield and BS EN ISO/IEC 27001 :2017 logo to demonstrate its conformance to the standard.
ISO 27001 is the internationally recognised Information Security Management Standard that proves an organisation’s commitment to the security of their customer, employee and shareholder’s information. With ISO 27001 in place, Repstor can minimise risks to potential data security breaches and reduce errors and costs, while demonstrating credibility and trust.
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Head of Operations David Smith will explore Matter Management Solutions on Office 365 while Repstor is once again an event sponsor and exhibiting at Booth B23
Belfast, September 30th, 2019 – Repstor, the ECM and matter lifecycle management specialist, today announced that its customer, Anthony Gold Solicitors, will present at the forthcoming London Law Expo, of which Repstor is also a key sponsor. Partner and Head of Operations David Smith will present ‘Successfully Transitioning to a Matter Management Solution on Office 365’ at 10am at the 8×8 UK tech Hub on the 8th October.
Europe’s largest law expo returns to the Old Billingsgate, London on Tuesday 8th October 2019 and will welcome visitors from the world of legal practice management, technology and IT security. With five presentation stages, 50 expert speakers and over 45 exhibitors, the London Law Expo will explore a wide array of topics, issues and opportunities to assist law firms and legal businesses increase their overall performance, profitability and levels of IT security.
David Smith is a solicitor specialising in residential property litigation and is also Head of Operations for Anthony Gold Solicitors. He is responsible for much of the non-legal staff and operations in the business including all IT purchasing and supply. His session will show how the company moved to the cloud, why it chose to deploy Office 365 and Repstor Custodian for Legal™ and what the next steps are in the company’s journey of digital transformation.
Commenting on Smith’s appearance at the London Law Expo, Sheila Gormley, Repstor’s co-founder and director of Legal Solutions, said: “Law firms and legal teams globally are moving to Office 365 – but few are getting the best out of it. This powerful presentation from David will help legal specialists make the most of their Office 365 investments.” Sheila continued, “It is also very fitting that David is speaking at the event. It is a year ago since he first met Repstor at this very same event and became a customer shortly afterwards!”
Repstor is also exhibiting at Booth B23, where it will showcase Custodian for Legal™, its Office 365-based document, email and matter lifecycle management system, which is relied on by legal teams across the globe. Its collaboration and document management capabilities, optimised for legal users, harness the familiar interface of Microsoft Outlook and other popular Office 365 applications including SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, reflecting the way people instinctively communicate and share content with clients and colleagues.
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