At TCS, we draw our expertise to introduce global IT services across many vertical markets, including the legal sector. Our ability to assess challenges in the legal sector and provide solutions has taken the shape of TCS’ proprietary Legal Management Solution (LMS). LMS enables you to drive firm-wide efficiencies by adopting best-practice legal solutions to meet sophisticated client requirements.
Read what our customers have to say about TCS’ Legal Management Solution:
Shoosmiths, Chris Stanton, Group CFO | The Law Society of England & Wale, Steve Jeffree, Group CIO
Client Challenges
- Unavailability of a single IT solution
- Presence of disparate, outdated and cumbersome IT systems and infrastructure that drive inefficient, disconnected processes resulting in high level of rework, uncertain reporting and expensive support
- Lack of knowledge management and human capital
- High consultantancy fees
- Little mobility
- Partner accounting
- Insufficent back office operations in a follow-the-sun model
What TCS Provides
Specifically for law firms and in-house counsel, LMS supports growth and offers you a competitive advantage by enabling improved business strategy to expand client relationships and operational processes. Built on SAP’s leading business management platform, LMS extends SAP Professional Services best practices to cover all the major functions of a legal practice. It allows you to select flexible operating and delivery models, including our in-house managed-services and IT-as-a-service models.
LMS’ built-in key features include the following:
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Human capital and talent management
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Best practice management
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Matter management
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Integrated asset and procurement management
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Client business development and CRM
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IT infrastructure and operational support
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World-class financials
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Enterprise-class Business Intelligence (BI)
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Integrated asset management and integrated procurement management in an inherent portal solution
We also offer a range of services from business process outsourcing of core and non-core activities to complete end-to-end IT outsourcing and system integration. TCS BPO services offer you the ability to scale your business and improve operational efficiency while ensuring that you meet your increasingly complex client requirements.
Business Value
LMS helps you deliver real business value from your IT investments, supported by a business case that identifies true return on investment. Our Global Network Delivery Model™ (GNDM™) ensures that you get the best skills, where required, when you need them, and at the most competitive rates.
TCS’ LMS adds value to your business with the following:
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Lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and increased profitability
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Increased client retention and fee earner utilization rates, while reducing unwarranted write-offs
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Integration of business processes into one platform, one database that results in the ability to share vital, consistent information across the firm, ensuring a “single version of the truth”
- Real-time insight into the component level profitability at the firm, practice group, fee earner, office, client or matter levels
- Greater reliability, availability, performance and stability
- Consistent interfaces and ease in the introduction of new systems
- A user-friendly interface of your choice
- Effective, efficient and faster new business integration
- Incremental efficiencies throughout your firm
- Informed management decisions and simplified information systems
We help you improve productivity and drive operational efficiency, thereby enabling you to focus on your core business and implement new systems faster and with better quality.
Client Thoughts
“Following a comprehensive evaluation of the solutions in the market, Shoosmiths found that LMS from TCS could best meet our requirements. Aside from replacing our Practice Management System with a robust and world-class finance and matter management system, our goals were further reaching. By choosing a true ERP system, we will be able to replace multiple disparate systems, such as HR and CRM, with a single solution providing one version of the truth in real time, thereby improving decision making and enabling us to be provide our clients with a more efficient and higher quality service.”
- Shoosmiths, Chris Stanton, Group CFO
“As a result of the changing nature of the Society, we not only needed a platform that provided maximum opportunity for the transformation, but also a partner with legal domain knowledge and deep competencies in application development and its implementation. TCS has the depth of expertise and wealth of supporting tools which allow us to implement these changes and ultimately help us become a more agile organization.”
- The Law Society of England & Wales, Steve Jeffree, Group CIO
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