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Employment
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11–50 lawyers
Case summary
Location
Manchester
,
United Kingdom
Firm size
24 lawyers
Practice area
Employment
Switched from
Monthly spreadsheets from accounts
Plan
Firm
Live in
16 days

Partners see profit by practice area every Monday, with no spreadsheet and no waiting for accounts.
Tess Callahan
Operations Director
Headline result

realisation in the first year
spreadsheets at partner meetings
from kick-off to live
Before Filebird
Partners waited until the middle of each month for a spreadsheet from accounts, by which time the numbers described a month nobody could change.
The switch
Tess set up practice areas, budgets and billing targets in Filebird. Time, invoices and payments now feed a live dashboard for each partner.
What changed
Realisation rose by 18 per cent in the first year, and the Monday partner meeting starts from the same live numbers everyone can see.
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