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the firm sought leading-edge, cloud-based solutions to
more securely manage the firm's documents, email and
accounting and billing needs.
Even more mission-critical was obtaining
technology capable of fostering and sustaining Big
Law-style collaborative relationships among partners
at a much lower cost. Firm management researched
and identified appropriate technology and vendors.
As a result, Intermedia provides hosting services
for email. The firm uses the SecuriSync file-sharing
portal for secure collaboration on documents with
clients and partners and Skype for Business for video
calls between partners and to share screens while
collaborating on documents.
For its list server, the firm employs a "Google
Groups" format that also functions as the firmwide
virtual water cooler. Worldox Cloud handles document
management for all client documents. Collaboration
on internal projects such as firm retreats is executed
on Teamwork.com. The firm uses Bill4Time as its time
and billing solution, with custom reporting built for the
firm's unique partner draw calculations as well as key
reports from Bill4Time to allow total transparency in
firm finances for all partners.
As its foundation, Culhane Meadows designed its
technology platform to support the firm's core values:
innovation, collaboration, integrity and transparency.
When, for example, one of the firm's trademark
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The entire
system is
designed
to support
the firm's
core values:
innovation,
collaboration,
integrity and
transparency.
