How a 120-seat law firm won back billable hours

Growth by acquisition had left the firm with three incompatible IT environments, one per office. The engagement paid for itself in 14 weeks.

IT friction was eating 23% of the firm's billable time.

This mid-market law firm had grown through acquisition, inheriting three different IT environments with incompatible systems. Partners couldn't access files reliably across offices. The IT team was spending most of its time on reactive fixes instead of strategic initiatives. Billable hours were bleeding out through infrastructure friction.

3
Separate IT environments
No integration between office systems after acquisitions
23%
Billable time lost
Nearly a quarter of revenue-generating hours eaten by IT friction
12 hrs/wk
Reactive fixes
IT team trapped in a cycle of putting out fires
0
Cross-office visibility
No unified view of infrastructure health or performance

We put all three offices on one environment and retrained the IT team.

12-week migration and unification

We unified all three office environments onto a single Azure-native stack, migrated document management to SharePoint Online with proper governance, and deployed Nexus for real-time operational monitoring. The IT team was retrained from reactive fixes to strategic operations.

Azure Microsoft 365 SharePoint Online Nexus Platform Azure AD Intune

$340K in first-year ROI and 99.9% uptime across all three offices

6 hrs/wk
Time reclaimed
Partners and staff recovered billable hours lost to infrastructure friction
99.9%
Uptime achieved
Cross-office reliability went from inconsistent to dependable
$340K
Year 1 ROI
Combined savings from efficiency gains, reduced vendor costs, and recovered billable time
14 weeks
Full payoff
Time for the savings to cover the entire engagement

Our partners used to joke that our IT was held together with duct tape. Nobody's laughing anymore — because nobody's waiting on IT anymore either.

Managing Partner, Regional Law Firm

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