Whitlock Rowe moved twelve years of matters in three weeks.

London litigators with 32 lawyers and a decade of files braced for a painful migration. Filebird’s team moved every matter, document and ledger, and nobody lost a file.

Case summary

Location

London

United Kingdom

Firm size

32 lawyers

Practice area

Litigation

Switched from

A server-based practice system

Plan

Firm

Live in

3 weeks

I braced for a painful migration. Their team moved twelve years of matters in three weeks, and nobody lost a single file.

Simon Rowe

Practice Manager

Headline result

0 weeks

to move twelve years of matters

documents filed to the right matter

files lost

Simon Rowe

Practice Manager

Whitlock Rowe

London

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Before Filebird

Whitlock Rowe ran on a server in a cupboard and a practice system nobody wanted to touch. Simon had postponed the migration for four years, worried about losing history in the middle of live litigation.

The switch

A named Filebird migration lead mapped every matter type with Simon, moved 48,000 documents with their folders intact and checked each ledger balance before sign-off. The team kept working in the old system until the Friday.

What changed

On the Monday, all 32 lawyers logged in and carried on. Court dates sync to every calendar, and partners see work in progress for each case without asking accounts.

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