New digital offering, built exclusively for the Microsoft 365/SharePoint platform, empowers legal teams with sophisticated legal matter management
Eversheds Sutherland’s consulting arm has today launched a matter lifecycle management solution for legal teams, ES / Unity – Powered by Repstor. This new product combines Eversheds Sutherland Consulting ‘Unity’ system and the ‘Custodian’ platform developed by leading email and document management software experts Repstor. ES/Unity will support legal teams tasked with driving innovation and efficiency in online legal matter and document management allowing them to leverage a complete matter lifecycle management solution built exclusively for the M365 / SharePoint platform. ES / Unity delivers scalable and sophisticated Management Information (MI) for legal teams and is deployable practically anywhere in the world.
Head of Eversheds Sutherland Consulting Graham Richardson commented:
“We work with many legal teams to help them find innovative new ways to drive efficiencies and operational effectiveness and, although many realise the need for better technology tools, they find it hard to find the right provider and right price. ES / Unity is built by lawyers for lawyers and provides a slick matter management solution that is cost effective and, crucially, easy to implement.”
To provide the new offering, Eversheds Sutherland Consulting will enter into a joint venture with UK-based software provider Repstor. The solution will be delivered collaboratively by Eversheds Sutherland Consulting and Repstor. Built exclusively for the Microsoft SharePoint/M365 platform and offering native integration into Microsoft Outlook, the software has been designed from the outset to be Cloud ready but also have the flexibility to be deployed on client’s own networks if required. Eversheds Sutherland Consulting will focus on project management and working with clients to maximise the business benefits of using legal matter management technology, with Repstor providing the technical software expertise.
CEO of Repstor Alan McMillen added:
“We are very excited about the collaboration with Eversheds Sutherland Consulting. We are confident in the power and capability of our software platform which through this joint venture, we now have the opportunity to propel to the next level. Together we can leverage the extensive knowledge that Graham and the team have built of the legal sector alongside our own significant software and digital expertise in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint technologies. We are committed to offering legal teams an innovative new solution that meets their requirements not just now but also in the future.”
About Eversheds Sutherland (International)
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP provides legal services to a global client base ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest multinationals. With more than 2,300 lawyers, the firm operates in 55 offices across 28 jurisdictions. In addition, a network of over 200 related law firms, including formalized alliances in Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa, provide support across the globe.
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP is part of a global legal practice, operating through various separate and distinct legal entities, under Eversheds Sutherland. For a full description of the structure and a list of offices, please visit www.eversheds-sutherland.com.



“Being awarded this place on the G-Cloud 7 agreement further confirms Repstor’s position as a leading SME supplier of Cloud services to the UK Public Sector. As part of the G-Cloud 7 agreement we have extended the range of products and services we are offering on the Digital Marketplace online store and are excited to be part of the G-Cloud 7 programme delivering great value cloud based products and services to Public Sector Bodies,” Alan McMillen, CEO, Repstor.
“Queen’s University chose the Repstor affinity product because it provided a level of product integration, ease of use and performance that we did not see elsewhere. The filing of email is key within the Contracts team and in our evaluation filing of email to SharePoint using the Quick File tool in Repstor affinity was fast and easy, which was not the experience with competing products. The affinity product required no user training and was easily deployed across our entire team,” Tom Edgar, Head of Consultancy & Technical Services, Research and Enterprise Directorate, Queen’s University Belfast.
“We are delighted to be working with Queen’s University Belfast. It is great to work with a local University and to hear how their evaluation of the market led to our product being clearly identified as the market leader for Outlook and SharePoint integration,” Alan McMillen, CEO, Repstor Limited.
“With 3.0, the affinity product further extends its deep integration with Microsoft 365 and other ECM repositories – providing access through the familiar interface of Microsoft Outlook without impacting Outlook’s stability or performance. We continue to deliver enterprise ECM user adoption by providing users with access to tools from where they prefer to do their work,” said Fergus Wilson, Repstor’s CTO.
“In our desire to make life easier and more productive for our customers, while finding solutions that users love, we are delighted to partner with Repstor as their technology offers solutions that make ECM easy. Repstor affinity provides intuitive access to any ECM repository, from Microsoft Outlook. Repstor affinity’s interface provides the simple behaviour of filing and collaborating from within Outlook even though the user is saving content to an ECM system,” says René Beulen, Managing Partner at Transform Data.
Alan McMillen, Repstor CEO commented, “By partnering with Transform Data we have extended our reach further into the Benelux and Nordics regions. This partnership will allow us to develop business jointly in these important regions, and will enable us to provide effective local support for Repstor resellers in these regions. The Repstor product range continues to develop with the ethos that the company was built on – making happier users. We create products that users will adopt by making them intuitive and familiar. Transform Data also strives to increase users’ productivity –making it a natural fit for our companies to partner.”