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Andrew McManus, IT Director at Eversheds Sutherland to share Microsoft 365 for Matter Management insights at British Legal Technology Forum

‘3 reasons to use Microsoft 365 to Automate Matter Management’ – British Legal Technology Forum – Innovation Stage – 10:50am – March 13th

February 9th, 2018 –Repstor, the company that helps law firms exploit their SharePoint and Microsoft 365 investments for matter lifecycle management, has today confirmed that Andrew McManus, IT Director at Eversheds Sutherland, a key Repstor client, is to present at this year’s British Legal Technology Forum (BLTF) in London. The event will take place on March 13th.

Andrew will speak at 10:50am on the Innovation Stage and his talk entitled ‘3 reasons to use Microsoft 365 to Automate Matter Management’ is sure to draw significant interest. Andrew’s talk will centre on how to get the best from Microsoft 365 to help simplify lawyers’ lives, encourage collaboration and provide clients with real time information.

A CIO with a track history in a diverse range of industries including Construction, Live Events, Professional Services and Legal Services, Andrew has overhauled the technology platform at Eversheds Sutherland and led the development of a totally new set of digital solutions and capabilities. In previous roles Andrew has also delivered major system and infrastructure projects servicing some of the world’s largest and busiest Arenas and Exhibition Centres as well as the technology behind a major element of the Olympic Park catering service during the London 2012 Olympics. As an experienced CIO, Andrew has a particular interest in how fast moving technology platforms can totally revolutionise the client experience and quality of operations in any organisation.

Andrew is no stranger to Microsoft 365 or indeed Repstor. Two years ago Eversheds Sutherland selected Repstor’s custodian for legal to enable it to exploit Microsoft 365 for matter management and the relationship and project success has gone from strength to strength.

Commenting on Andrew’s involvement at BLTF 2018, Sheila Gormley, Repstor’s Director of Business Development, said, “It is testament to the strength of our relationship with Eversheds Sutherland that Andrew is presenting at this year’s British Legal Technology Forum. He is a much experienced speaker and has great insight and experience to share with other law firms and legal departments alike.”

The 2018 British Legal Technology Forum, Europe’s largest legal technology conference and exhibition, will take place on Tuesday, 13th March at London’s Old Billingsgate. Some 1,200 visitors from the world of law, legal technology and IT security are expected to attend, to debate and discover the systems, strategies, processes and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond.

Repstor to Return to the British Legal Technology Forum

Following the launch of ES/Unity™ at last year’s event, Repstor expects keen interest from both law firms and in-house teams looking to exploit their Office 365 investments for matter lifecycle management

January 29th, 2018 –Repstor, the company that helps businesses exploit their SharePoint and Office 365 investments for matter lifecycle management, has confirmed that it will participate in this year’s British Legal Technology Forum (BLTF) in London. The event will take place on March 13th.

Last year, Repstor made a big splash at BLTF with its launch of ES /Unity™ in partnership with international law firm Eversheds Sutherland. The powerful legal matter management solution, which works with companies’ existing Office 365/SharePoint systems, has attracted a strong client base among corporate legal teams since its launch. National Grid, Wellcome Trust, Queen’s University Belfast, and Miral, an asset management company in the UAE, signed up within the first few weeks, and business continued to be brisk throughout 2017.

This year, the company will showcase its Office 365-native products including Matter Management; Repstor affinity™ the only truly native SharePoint Outlook integration delivering both online and offline access to SharePoint content plus other repositories including M-Files, High-Q, Microfocus Content Manager, OpenText etc; and Repstor assist™, categorisation technology that provides fast and accurate SharePoint email filing as well as other content stores and offers suggested locations based on existing filed content.

Repstor’s products have attracted worldwide interest because they increase return on Office365 and SharePoint investments. In particular by adding case and matter management to Office365, the company has experienced enthusiastic take-up among law firms and corporate legal departments.

Commenting on Repstor’s involvement at BLTF 2018, Alan McMillen, Repstor’s CEO, said, “We can’t wait to return to the British Legal Technology Forum this summer. Last year’s was a pivotal event for Repstor and our strategic partner Eversheds Sutherland. ES/Unity has been fantastically well received by the corporate legal sector. Having added mobile capabilities and exploiting more of the Office365 platform, plus the opportunities that Azure cognitive services (AI) present, we have an exciting portfolio to talk to firms about this year.”

Major Energy Industry Regulator turns to Repstor to deliver a Robust Compliance Control Platform using SharePoint

Document management is critical to this not-for-profit organisation’s everyday activities.

If energy suppliers are found not to comply with the agency’s rigorous standards, it must take action – creating, collating and processing legal documents, evidence, settlement agreements and so on. In a given year, the authority might handle around 1,000 cases. Read this anonymised case study where Repstor affinity turns SharePoint into a robust document management, collaboration and compliance control platform for a major energy industry regulator.

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SharePoint Outlook Integration

affinity has full support for SharePoint content types, metadata, defaults, mandatory metadata and taxonomies meaning that information management best practice and automation can be applied to enhance user productivity and efficiency.

It is easy to file into the correct location with the SharePoint Outlook integration. The SharePoint document libraries and folders are presented in Outlook as a folder hierarchy. Standard Outlook filing functionality can be used (drag and drop, quick steps, rules), or Repstor’s assist lite can be used to file into deep SharePoint hierarchies easily.

Benefits of the affinity SharePoint Outlook integration:

Access SharePoint content within a folder hierarchy in Outlook – available on and offline. affinity is a full offline client, providing full access, addition and editing while offline. This allows users to work while disconnected from the SharePoint system, and additionally improves the user experience.
File Emails in SharePoint directly from Outlook: Use standard Outlook features such as drag and drop/copy and paste/move emails to Outlook folders that are synchronized with SharePoint. Use Repstor assist lite to file emails easily in complex SharePoint hierarchies.
File email attachments in SharePoint directly from Outlook: Users can drag and drop or copy email attachments directly to SharePoint locations using standard Outlook functions. Use affinity Quick File to file attachments easily in complex SharePoint hierarchies.
Add Files to SharePoint From Outlook: Users can drag and drop content from their windows desktop, windows explorer, Outlook folders, and similar applications to SharePoint locations, or may choose to add documents via the affinity add document function.
Update SharePoint Content from Outlook: Users can preview (preview pane in Outlook), view (in native application), or edit (in native application) content that is stored in SharePoint from the Outlook User Interface.
Notification of added or updated content: Users can keep track of content within multiple sites, or within complex SharePoint hierarchies. affinity will use standard unread notifications to flag new or updated content.
Full offline access to SharePoint: Users can continue to add, update and access content from within Outlook even when they are disconnected from the SharePoint system.

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Repstor affinity reduces Outlook PST storage & enhances SharePoint collaboration at global automotive supplier Brose

Brose is a large global automotive supplier. Its mechatronic systems for doors, seats
or electric motors and drives can be found in every second new vehicle around the
world today. The company, which is over a century old and is still family owned today,
employs more than 25,000 people across 60 locations in 23 countries.

Brose depends on IT to enable dispersed global teams to collaborate on customer projects.
It means it can field the right knowledge experts without any concerns about location.
The company has 15,000 Microsoft Office users internationally, Exchange mailbox servers sited
in Europe, Asia and North America, and a central SharePoint farm located in Germany.

Despite having central file shares and SharePoint collaboration portals, Brose’s project teams were
defaulting to email to hold and retrieve project-related information and documents, in the form of Outlook
personal folders (PST data files). A lot of time could be spent locating the latest version of content, and the
over-reliance on PST files located on the local network was consuming a lot of expensive storage. Also, if
users were unavailable or left the company, there was no easy way to get at the information held in their
email folders.

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Repstor to Exhibit and Speak at Europe’s Largest Law Expo – London Law Expo 2017

The company prepares to launch a new campaign to help Law Firms exploit Office 365 for Matter Management

September 29th, 2017 – Repstor, the ECM adoption company that helps businesses exploit their SharePoint and Office 365 investments, has today announced that it is participating as an exhibitor and speaker at this year’s London Law Expo 2017.

This year’s event is being held at Old Billingsgate on October 10th and sees the amalgamation of the London Law Expo and the European Legal Security Forum. The event features 6 presentation stages, 70 expert speakers, 80 exhibitors and an estimated 2,000 visitors from the world of legal practice management, technology and IT security.

Repstor and strategic customer and partner, Eversheds Sutherland, join a line-up of world class speakers to present at 2PM on the Technology Hub stage. The talk entitled, ‘Exploiting Office 365 for Matter Management’, will be presented jointly by Eversheds Sutherland’s Graham Richardson and Repstor’s Sheila Gormley.

Repstor will launch its Office365 for Matter Management campaign featuring its new white paper ‘7 Indisputable Reasons to use Office 365 for Matter Management’. London Law Expo delegates are invited get their complimentary copy from stand A24 or download a PDF here.

CTO of Repstor Fergus Wilson added:

“Office 365 is an existing resource most firms have already invested in, and many of its capabilities are inherently superior to those of dedicated matter management systems. This is largely due to the huge investment Microsoft has made in Office 365, added to the vast ecosystem of Microsoft software partners which are enhancing Office 365 all the time with new, specialist features and integration options.”

Fergus continues, “Our latest campaign will help firms to make the case for selecting Office 365 for complete matter lifecycle management – a move that law firms ranging from large international practices like Eversheds Sutherland to challenger firms like gunnercooke have already made.”

Drop by stand A24 to discuss how Repstor can transform your firms’ SharePoint and Office 365 adoption.

New Repstor paper sets out ‘7 indisputable reasons to use Microsoft 365 as a matter management platform’

Reason 1: It’s where the investment is

September 27th , 2017 – Repstor, the ECM adoption company that helps businesses exploit their SharePoint and Microsoft 365 investments, has published a new paper setting out ‘7 Indisputable reasons to use Microsoft 365 as a matter management platform’, challenging legal teams to look at the software they already have (and use every day) before exposing themselves to the expense and upheaval of deploying a dedicated document management system.

As all law firms and in-house corporate legal teams come under pressure to improve efficiency, measure productivity and collaborate more effectively, interest in systematic content management is rising sharply. But as the new Repstor paper makes clear, there is no need to invest in a dedicated, separate system for this when the vast majority of legal professionals already have established office systems they use routinely for sharing matter-related content.

Although, left unchecked, the popular practice of using email to distribute documents can be inefficient – and consume a lot of computer storage – this can be addressed easily using integrated Microsoft partner solutions which introduce new order and transparency to the way matter content is managed.

Reason 1 to default to Microsoft 365 (M365) for matter management, according to the paper, is the sheer momentum around the platform. M365 user numbers are expected to exceed 100 million by the end of 2017, propelled by heavy investment in the platform by Microsoft as well as its cloud partner ecosystem – estimated to be 10 times larger than Google’s. So it’s a robust platform for legal teams to align their routine processes with.

Other arguments include M365’s impressive feature set, made even richer by partner solutions such as Repstor custodian or ES/Unity which among other things add structure and workflow to email content filing. Then there’s the advanced management reporting, and the inherent security controls. And so on.

But probably the most obvious reason legal teams should centre their matter management on M365 is that it they have already invested in Microsoft technology – and, crucially, users are comfortable with it. As the paper makes clear, “By choosing to buy a distinct content management system for legal matters, firms are incurring unnecessary cost and complexity.”

Download ‘7 indisputable reasons to use Microsoft 365 as a matter management platform’ here

7 Indisputable Reasons to use Microsoft 365 for Matter Management

September 2017 – Our newest Paper, challenging legal teams to look at the software they already have (and use every day) before exposing themselves to the expense and upheaval of deploying a dedicated document management system.

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Repstor and Eversheds Sutherland Coverage in Credit Control Journal

Eversheds Sutherlands head of consulting, Graham Richardson has written a very informative piece for key industry publication Credit Control Journal in which he discusses how in-house legal teams are caught in an ever growing digital divide.

Graham says that in-house legal teams are increasingly being seen as key strategic advisers to business, but they are unable to optimise productivity and efficiency due to a lack of technological tools, which is leaving them straddling an ever widening digital divide, according to the Looking Glass report.

This digital divide, he explains is hobbling in-house legal teams. This has prompted international law firm Eversheds Sutherland to make use of its own digital transformation (DX) journey to assist legal professionals.

Read Graham’s article Article_CCJ_ESUnity_GR_FC_Final

A Fresh Approach to Matter Management. Introducing ES /Unity, Powered by Repstor

A streamlined approach.

Matter, contract and document management for legal teams

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