Leading global law firm Clyde & Co will be moving its core financial and practice management systems to the cloud with Elite 3E, with Harbor as its implementation partner. Harbor is an Elite Premier Delivery Partner.
Founded in 1933, Clyde & Co has more than 3,200 legal professionals—including 492 partners and more than 2,700 lawyers—working across 60+ offices on 6 continents. It has been an on-prem 3E customer since 2016, and before that an Enterprise customer for more than two decades.
A lot of the immediate focus will be on migrating to the cloud and Elite’s vice president of sales, Duncan Hannigan, said: “There’s a balance between doing business transformation before the cloud and when you’re in the cloud. Clyde & Co are focused on getting to the cloud with simplification and thinking strategically about what makes sense to bring to the cloud – you don’t take dusty boxes to a new house and there is a simplification program that we are supporting. The benefit of getting to the cloud quickly and the associated services and fully supported management services and technology available to them is more important than trying to boil the ocean with new ways of working.”
He added: “The main difference is that now when you move to the cloud it’s not one and done any more, it’s just the starting point and there is a fairly steady pace of evolution.”
Over 25% of Elite’s customers are now signed up to 3E in the cloud, including a number of very large firms. Hannigan said: “There is no difference in the pace and desire for change between a massive firm and a single office one. Everyone we’re talking to is saying ‘when’ not ‘if’.”
This is a summary of an article originally published on Legal IT Insider.
- Cloud
- Financial management
- Managed services